Debate moderator Chris Wallace dangled before Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton the once-popular (at least in Washington) idea of a “grand bargain” to save Social Security and Medicare. On Wednesday night, neither of them bit.
If you’re a progressive, that’s cause for a little celebration. It shows that America’s political leaders have finally rejected the obsessive alarmism about the national debt that infected elite circles in the wake of the Great Recession, even if some journalists have not. It demonstrates the progress that liberal activists have made in changing the debate around Social Security and Medicare ― and the challenges they face in dislodging the last stubborn vestiges of the pro-austerity consensus....
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