Some Republicans are apparently trying to defend services such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—they’re just doing it in the worst way possible. Investigative journalist Tara Palmeri wrote in her newsletter The Red Letter Thursday that one Republican operative close to the White House had been framing the issue in a way conservatives would understand. “Medicaid is not just for Black people in the ghetto, these are our voters,” the operative said, according to Palmeri. Republicans’—