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This week we are featuring our special report on the importance of
fixing family care in America. Keep scrolling for Today's On Tap!

Why Universal Family Care Belongs Atop the Progressive Agenda

An introduction to our special issue on how to solve the family care
crisis BY DAVID DAYEN

How to Finance Universal Family Care

Considering the options for building a new social-insurance program BY
ROBERT KUTTNER

Building Back the Care Economy

We have a moment to right many historical wrongs for care workers, which
create racial and gender inequities. BY WILLIAM E. SPRIGGS

Economic Rights as Industrial Policy

Family care policies can be part of a transformation that centers the
worker in economic relief efforts rather than companies. BY CASSANDRA
LYN ROBERTSON & DARRICK HAMILTON

An Interview With Ai-jen Poo

The head of the National Domestic Workers Alliance talks about her
vision for a unified, integrated family care infrastructure. BY DAVID
DAYEN

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OCTOBER

**21, 2020**

Kuttner on TAP

Illusions of Post-Trump Bipartisanship

There is a fair amount of wishful thinking about Republican legislators
deserting Donald Trump. The signs are all around us of

**other**Republicans distancing themselves from Trump-Reagan- and
Bush-era alums, former military and intelligence officials, and of
course the brilliant folks behind the Lincoln Project.

But GOP senators and members of the House are in no rush to undermine
Trump. The reason is that the Republican base remains mostly Trumpian.

When a Ben Sasse makes disparaging comments

about Trump in a phone call with supporters, it's more about Sasse's
plans to be a possible contender to succeed Trump than a principled
distancing from Trumpism. And when 25 Republican House members, with the
tacit OK of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, join a Problem Solvers
Caucus with 25 Democrats, it's because they are in tight races in
swing districts. It's not because Republican legislators have been
seized with an outbreak of moderation.

The fact is that Republican legislators have been all-too-willing
enablers of Trump's attempted march to dictatorship. They may find his
coarse, narcissistic lunacy irritating and counterproductive, but
that's about tactics and not principles.

Face it, the Trump-era Republican Party and its legislators are a lost
cause for all that's decent. While Joe Biden may need to put a
never-Trumper governor in his Cabinet for the sake of nominal
bipartisanship, the only way to extirpate Trump and his toadies in
Congress is to demolish them at the polls.

A new progressive centrism will emerge from Biden defining it, bringing
the broad public to it, and implementing it Roosevelt-style, with
Republicans kicking and screaming-not from bringing post-Trump
Republicans around.

A post-Trump Eisenhower GOP is a lovely fantasy. The Trump Republican
Party will have to die first.

~ ROBERT KUTTNER

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Robert Kuttner's latest book is
The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy
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