Not because they can’t get away with it. They can, for a while anyway, before the economic chickens come home to roost.

With most conservatives they don’t notice/disapprove of any of these kind of actions until they personally are affected.

I’m thinking through how this will manifest with Social Security. Certainly retirees receiving Social Security will notice first which represents a high percentage of traditional conservative votes. Second will be the adult children (in their 40s and 50s) that learn their living retired parents are affected. Except by then the damage will be done with months or years before the situation will return to where it was prior to trump.

So aging parents are going to be dependent on their adult children’s goodwill in funding their retirement. For many adult children in this case they’re already economically stressed and don’t have the funds to support their aging parents too because they might still be economically supporting their young adult children struggling to find meaningful wage employment in today’s job market. We’ll see the aging parents tap any equity they have in their real estate to cover their short term expenses. Eventually those reverse mortgages will dry up too and possibly within 5 to 10 years.

Its going to be horrible for everyone except giant investment groups able to buy up the aging parent’s homes on the cheap.