Liz Bruenig Republicans
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There are a few Republicans who want Liz Bruenig’s ideal paradise to happen–ban a woman’s right to choose and then embrace a social policy that would provide some social benefits to families while of course owning the liberals, the real ideology of the Bruenigs. But of course this is all far more popular in the pages of the New York Times than it is with real life Republicans. So, like Thomas Edsall’s ridiculousness about “can’t we all just get along” it gets lots of columns in elite media publications but will go nowhere.
“A full-spectrum family policy has to be about encouraging and supporting people in getting married and starting families,” said Oren Cass, executive director of the American Compass think tank. “It has to be pro-life, but also supportive of those families as they are trying to raise kids in an economic environment where that has become a lot harder to do.”
The idea of spending heavily on family benefits remains an outlier within the Republican Party, which only recently rejected Democrats’ attempts to extend pandemic-era child tax credits.
But a number of conservative members of Congress have embraced new benefits for parents, including Mr. Cass’s former boss, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah, as well as the senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Josh Hawley of Missouri and J.D. Vance of Ohio.
And in President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, he called on Republicans to join him in providing families with child care, paid leave, child tax credits and affordable housing.
Herr Hawley and Herr Vance will surely go along with Biden’s family policy……..
In arguing this, Ms. Bachiochi, Mr. Cass and others in this network are making a big ask: for Republicans to reject what they call the outdated, rigid agenda of the Reagan era, which not only cut working parents from welfare programs, but also vilified mothers receiving public benefits, often in starkly racist terms. If Republicans are to grow support among working-class, multiethnic voters, they say, the party must match pro-family rhetoric with pro-family investments.
The group has founded think tanks, published statements of principle and organized discussions with policymakers to push its cause. Mr. Cass, 39, said his ideas on policy had been shaped by his own family life. His wife has her own career, and they both work from home in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
Mr. Cass served as the domestic policy director for Mr. Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign; in 2020, he founded American Compass, a think tank that has tried to build conservative momentum for more generous government support to working families. Its priorities include child cash benefits, wage subsidies and even reviving the labor movement.
Rejecting Reagan economic policy…..yeah, that’s clearly the ideology of the Republican Party in 2023…….I would almost have a grudging respect for the pro-forced birth caucus if they actually pushed forward massive family welfare policies. But they won’t because they don’t really care and the vast majority of Republicans really really really don’t care. Especially when there’s critical issues for American families–such as what is called a bahn mi at Oberlin or the idea that our kids might read about Roberto Clemente in their school libraries–to create a real political movement around.