Since conservatives want to repeal a century of progressivism and Democrats want to defend and expand its achievements, I have all along thought Hillary the less dangerous toward, or more favorable toward, Social Security and Medicare for retirees, compared to The Duce.
But that could be wrong.
In order to shore up Obamacare and open up Medicare for all, and to count time as an unemployed care-giver as time worked for purposes of calculating Social Security benefits though such care-givers pay nothing to support the Social Security fund during all those years, she might well tolerate reductions in SS benefits or increased costs associated with Medicare for some or all retirees.
Means testing, for example.
And that's perhaps only the tip of the iceberg.
And The Duce, not fully aligned with the reactionary, anti-progressive agenda of the misnamed American conservative movement, has promised - though maybe not much lately and never very credibly - to retain and strengthen Social Security and Medicare for at least people already retired, though that does not at all suit the druthers of Republican office-holders from DC to East Podunk, or of the ideologists of the party and American conservatism.
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