Malice Is Trump's Governing Principle: Medicaid Edition

In yesterday's We Resist thread, I mentioned the Trump administration's threat to make employment a requirement of accessing Medicaid, noting that the entire Republican agenda at this point is just straight-up, brazen, unfathomable malice.

And here we are:

Everything about this decision is terrible: It's cruel, it's pointless, it ignores reality in myriad ways, it entrenches unemployment stigma, and it moves us further away from the notion that healthcare is a right, not a privilege. https://t.co/QGA42oCWVd

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) January 11, 2018

NB: This has Mike Pence written all over it. Trump clearly does not have a strong enough grasp on policy, no less an interaction of federal and state policy like this, to devise this trash on his own. This was Pence. https://t.co/EcBr42WFBI

— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) January 11, 2018

I don't even know what else to say. We are being governed (such as it is) by cruel men. And cruel men given unlimited power hurt people, ruthlessly and relentlessly.

This administration could never have been anything else. It is exactly what anyone paying attention anticipated — and urgently warned — that it would be.