A recent PBS Newshour interview featured a member of the vestigial group of Republicans who do not support Trump, GOP Rep. Mike Lawler of New York. He started off with the call for reduced spending and a lower deficit which has been the centerpiece of their platform since before the invention of the wheel. That relic has seldom been supported by any respectable economist since the Great Depression and, of course, the Republicans have never hesitated to throw money at any of their favorite projects. Everybody, including most Republicans, know that party line is BS -- the current crop of office seekers may pay it lip service, but the Trumpists have moved on to a xenophobic obsession with building a border wall -- out of gold bricks if that is what it takes. The bottom line for all this is that the "moderate" Republicans really don't have anything to say of interest to anyone at this point.
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