$2,000 vs. $600 stimulus payments isn’t the real issue
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There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with the covid-19 stimulus compromise President Trump signed on Sunday.
Its shortcomings, however, are not the specific provisions that populists on both the left and right are complaining about.
Right-leaning critics have mostly griped about foreign aid measures, with the suggestion that Democratic globalists are helping foreigners at the expense of struggling Americans.
“When your country’s COVID-19 relief bill includes $10 million in ‘gender programs’ for Pakistan, you know Congress is broken,” tweeted Rep.-elect Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).
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This is, at best, misleading.
Demagogues, including Trump, exploited this to mislead the public about which measures were intended for what purpose. They insinuated that Congress should have spent these foreign aid funds on the allegedly more righteous strategy of bigger stimulus payments for Americans.
The populist left agrees.
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