Repugnantans victims of a failed ideology?

So says Isabell Sawhill in this article. She admits that their wealthcare proposals are inhumane, but not because they are evil people. It's because they have fallen prey to an economic ideology that presumes tax cuts for the rich helps everyone, and that cutting benefits on people makes them take more responsibility for their lives by working harder. It seems like just so much rationalization for being what they are, inhumane.