When Americans are asked what they would like the government to do with any budget surplus, they are more than three times as likely to say they want to preserve entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security than they are to say they want a tax cut.
The idea was that Trump would be more protectionist on trade, less prone to getting involved in foreign wars, more likely to preserve entitlement programs.
Of adults 65 and older, 66percentt say preserving entitlements is more important, while just 21percentt would rather reduce the deficit.
He spoke about preserving entitlements, "fix ing) things so that everybody can rise up," and uniting people so that we can lift them up.
While Mr. Bush's reference summons family values, Mr. Gore's highlights the Democrats' traditional advantage on preserving entitlement programs.
Obama then offered a counter-plan, vague on details, that would combine spending cuts and tax increases in roughly equal measure, imposing cost controls on health care but preserving entitlement programs, while claiming to arrive at roughly the same savings as Ryan, but guided by vastly different principles.
Yet even though millennials favor a more activist government and preserving entitlement programs, they worry about those programs' long-term financial solvency.
More millennials favor preserving entitlement programs such as Social Security over reducing the federal budget deficit, but they're much more divided than older adults, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center.
Hours ahead of the vote, scores of Democrats left a caucus meeting fuming about the deal not reflecting any of their priorities, namely preserving entitlement programs and closing corporate tax loopholes.
And if we don't make some fundamental changes that acknowledge the realities of this century, we will have crippling inequality, and it will be hard to preserve the entitlement programs that Americans value.
