Newsmax’s Dick Morris is a massive Trump sycophant, but he will chime in on other political issues from time to time. In his June 15 column, he took the surprisingly sensible stance that Republicans shouldn’t be trying to cut Social Security and Medicare because it will cost them votes:
The House Republican Study Committee (RSC) is hard at work figuring out how Republicans can lose the next election.
They are planning amendments to the government spending bills this year to privatize Medicare and to means test access to benefits now given as a matter of right.
They also call for as yet unspecified cuts in Social Security.
The Washington Times reports that the Study group proposes to means test Medicare.
[…]But regardless of the merits of the issue, one thing is clear: cutting Medicare or Social Security is the one sure way for the Republicans to lose the election of 2024.
Even the report that the RSC is studying the idea is sure to make itself felt in Democratic negative ads during this entire cycle.
Winning elections is hard enough without handing the Democrats gratuitously a golden issue.
RSC, please cease and desist – now.
For his July 3 column, though, Morris was regurgitating right-wing talking points about purpored “censorship” of right-wing hate and misinformation:
In 2018, the Trump administration created CISA — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — to focus on protecting critical infrastructure and guarding against cybersecurity threats, largely from abroad.
But, under Biden, CISA has morphed into a different story, an ominousy dark tale of an agency that a House Committee calls “the nerve center of the federal government’s domestic surveillance and censorship operations on social media.”
The House Weaponization subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, charges that CISA “facilitated the censorship of Americans directly and through third-party intermediaries during the Biden administration.”
[…]So as censorship spreads online and gets contracted out to private agencies, we now see that it is catalyzed, fueled, and enabled by a federal agency — CISA.
Biden used an agency created to protect America’s infrastructure to spy on us and to suppress the truth if it doesn’t comport with the official government line.
As George Orwell wrote in his book “1984,” “Big Brother is Watching You.”
In 2023.
Morris identified no specific information that CISA has supposedly “censored.”