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I underestimated the administration. I thought that the means-tested $10k would be a political disaster. The left wing would consider it too low, and the right would consider it a handout.
But by combining it with enhanced protections for low-income people, the administration managed (from what I can tell) to get the left/youth on board with it.
And the right wing criticisms seem . . . tired? The fact that every right wing pundit in the country apparently got a $100k+ PPP loan certainly helps with that.
And the real valid policy criticism of the proposal--that it doesn't solve the underlying problem and actually creates a moral hazard by setting the precedent that college loans will be forgiven--isn't going to cost the Dems a lot of votes. If you are the kind of right-leaning person who thinks of things analytically and not emotionally and talks about moral hazard, then you are probably not going to vote for the GOP until they purge the fascists from leadership.
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