True, but even Republicans can't move things that far back. Their support drops precipitously if they fudge up Social Security or Medicare and they know it.

ACA is also another hot potato: They have been playing at ending it for several years, but only because Democrats would not let them. If they end it abruptly (as Trump promised) 20 million plus people lose their coverage. They have to come up with some replacement, and if it really does what ACA did it will be essentially ACA! There's no way around it. If it doesn't do what ACA does, then people die and go bankrupt. Want to bet 1000 of those victims whose kids die won't load up their rifles and descend on Washington DC? Real health access costs money and it doesn't matter if the person writing the bill is a Democrat or a Republican.

So I suspect we will see creeping degradation of everything progressives like, instead of outright dictatorship, censorship, death, and destruction.