For at least the last half century in American politics, Republicans have employed three distinct scams to hide the deeply regressive nature of their priorities and agenda from the voters. Trumpism, in its idealized form, was supposed to represent a break with this way of doing politics and policy at a fundamental level. Yet now that Congress is about to pass President Trump’s big budget bill, all three cons are alive and well—and have even been super-charged into something more venal and