The Cruelty is the Point

It appears that the latest attempt by Republicans to create a society in their own image, by which I mean cruel and small, is their Jihad against universal free school lunches.

I'd argue that Republicans have some sort of social imperative to be schmucks, but as I have said many times, a schmuck has a head.

States across the country are moving to provide universal free school meals to all our children. Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to stop them from doing just that.

The Republican Study Committee (of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members) on Wednesday released its desired 2024 budget, in which the party boldly declares its priority to eliminate the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, from the School Lunch Program. Why? Because “CEP allows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.”

This behavior is short-sighted, stupid, and self destructive. 

Yet more evidence that Frank (The composer, not the political scientist) Wilhoit's observation is true, "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."