Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

GOP Can't Even GOP

Jon Chait and Matt Yglesias both arrive at where I've been heading for a few weeks now.  I don't see how the GOP comes close to passing the tax cut bill they want to. 

If anything has been salutary about the Trump Epoch, it has been to watch the fantasists in the GOP come up against the reality of governing.  Governing happens in the Congress, ruling happens in the Executive.  Right now the GOP can't actually govern, because governing requires interaction with reality.  Like math.

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