Heather Gerken, a law professor at Yale, has taken up my call for progressive federalism. To be fair, since she's a fancy pants grad school prof, she takes it in other more interesting directions. Her argument is about policy and how federalism can shape policy.
That's a critical part of my thinking, too, but I also want to cast this as a political strategy. Gerken mentions spillovers, which is how one state's actions affect other states. These can be negative - like when one state stops regulating gun purchases and the neighboring state is suddenly awash in guns - but it can also be positive.
California is currently progressive America's best hope. It has an extraordinary market share of the economy. If it could combine with New York and Illinois, it could basically shape important aspects of our economy, from fuel efficiency standards to consumer financial protections. The GDP of those states is around $4.6B. That's roughly the same GDP from those three states as the GDP of all the states Trump carried except North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. And North Carolina and Pennsylvania have Democratic governors.
All I would add to the debate is the idea that blue states need to work together on certain issues. New England and New York could get together and set a new minimum wage. The Pacific coast states could set common energy standards.
But it has to be public, because the most important elections of 2018 might very well be the governors' races. Democrats need to start party building at the state level. Winning governor's mansions in Florida, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin should be just as important as playing defense in the Senate in a rough electoral map.
This will require three things.
First, it will require an aligned federalism that brings blue states into cooperation with each other to create progressive policies that improve the lives of their citizens and creates a blueprint for other state level candidates to run on.
Second, it will require finding good candidates at the state level who can win those gubernatorial races. No more goddamned Martha Coakleys.
Third, and perhaps most difficult, is getting a DC-bound Democratic party to see the benefit of expending resources on these governor's races when they will be playing defense in the Senate.
Now, if Trumpism is as disastrous as I think it will be, then you can do both.
But the time to start doing both is now.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016
WTF Are We Supposed To Do With These Assholes?
There is literally nothing that exists as truth to these sons of bitches.
An Amplification
Here is what is so terrifying about the Russian involvement in this year's election: the GOP will basically defend it because it brings them into power.
This point needs to be repeated, because it's critical to get beyond this bullshit false equivalency. For every Bernie Bro or Steiniac who was saying that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats? You look like idiots. Absolute simpering, drool-on-yourself idiots.
We have a great deal of evidence - both hard and circumstantial - that Russia wanted Trump to win and worked hard to make that happen. When these allegations are made public, most of the GOP leadership responds by...attacking the CIA. Really?
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are basically willing to let a foreign power fuck about in our elections, because it gets them closer to funneling tax cuts to the richest 1% and deregulating Goldman Sachs and the petrochemical industries.
They literally are willing to see democracy undermined if it means getting their (unpopular) agenda across the president's desk.
Trump will be a terrible president. He will likely - in no particular chronological order - crash the global trade networks, sparking a recession; start an unnecessary war; engage in unprecedented corruption and personal enrichment; undermine public discourse and unravel centuries of established political norms.
And when the bill comes due - providing there is an election worth having - it is incumbent that we don't allow the GOP to divorce themselves from this shitshow.
They own it, because they can't get beyond the zero-sum political discourse of "anything Democrats say must be the opposite of what we want."
Ugh.
This point needs to be repeated, because it's critical to get beyond this bullshit false equivalency. For every Bernie Bro or Steiniac who was saying that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats? You look like idiots. Absolute simpering, drool-on-yourself idiots.
We have a great deal of evidence - both hard and circumstantial - that Russia wanted Trump to win and worked hard to make that happen. When these allegations are made public, most of the GOP leadership responds by...attacking the CIA. Really?
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are basically willing to let a foreign power fuck about in our elections, because it gets them closer to funneling tax cuts to the richest 1% and deregulating Goldman Sachs and the petrochemical industries.
They literally are willing to see democracy undermined if it means getting their (unpopular) agenda across the president's desk.
Trump will be a terrible president. He will likely - in no particular chronological order - crash the global trade networks, sparking a recession; start an unnecessary war; engage in unprecedented corruption and personal enrichment; undermine public discourse and unravel centuries of established political norms.
And when the bill comes due - providing there is an election worth having - it is incumbent that we don't allow the GOP to divorce themselves from this shitshow.
They own it, because they can't get beyond the zero-sum political discourse of "anything Democrats say must be the opposite of what we want."
Ugh.
Saturday, December 10, 2016
This Is Why We Are Pissed
In our upcoming New Year's congregation of several families, we have agreed to ban political discussions in order to maintain a sense of comity. OK. This came from one member of the group who apparently said, "You lost, get over it."
I think there are a fair number of Republicans who see it this way. We had an election, the Republican won and now Democrats won't stop crying about it like little babies.
The problem with this thinking is that it fails to encompass how fundamentally radical this transformation could be if we DO stop protesting and fighting about it.
Russia interfered in our electoral process in order to elect a psychologically imbalanced neophyte. Republicans - led by Mitch McConnell - stopped the intelligence agencies from publicizing this information prior to the election, because they wanted to win more than they gave a shit that we were electing a psychologically imbalanced neophyte.
Clinton won a substantial plurality of the popular vote. Trump literally won on a technicality. He is the least popular person ever to enter the White House, and that unpopularity is likely only to increase.
He has empowered a cabal of the most radical people to ever hold power in this country. I'm saying that as a historian and I'm sorry/not sorry if it comes off as hyperbolic. They want to - in no particular order - cut Social Security benefits to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy; privatize Medicare; toss 20-23 million people off their health insurance; roll back as much environmental protection as they possibly can; and of course, FSM only knows what they will do to race relations and immigrants.
Paul Ryan's fiscal plan is a nightmare of upwards redistribution of wealth - already the most pressing economic problem we face, and ironically the thing that "elected" Trump.
So the Trump administration can be summed up in the following ways:
- Of dubious electoral legitimacy, due to outside interference and a failure of the Electoral College.
- A magnification of the concentration of wealth in the 1%.
- An assault on the environment.
- An assault on non-whites.
- An assault on women.
This is why we can't "get over it" because we lost. The Republican Party, over the course of the 21st century has become a radical outlier. They have embraced an extremist agenda of plutocracy, anti-science and vote suppression. This accelerated after Democrats took over the Congress in 2006 - prompted in part by the GOP efforts to privatize Social Security - and so there has always been a buffer between the radicals and the commonweal.
That's gone. We lie naked and exposed to the worst impulses of the Tea Party and the Robber Barons.
My own estimation is that these policies are going to be a disaster. Hopefully, they will be a disaster soon enough to flip at least one house of Congress in 2018. But they will eventually be a disaster.
When that happens - and hopefully there will be enough of America left to salvage - it is incumbent to make sure that we understand the history of these years. It's important that we understand the following.
Donald Trump is not going to screw us over and run us into a ravine. The Republican Party is. They are inseparable.
I think there are a fair number of Republicans who see it this way. We had an election, the Republican won and now Democrats won't stop crying about it like little babies.
The problem with this thinking is that it fails to encompass how fundamentally radical this transformation could be if we DO stop protesting and fighting about it.
Russia interfered in our electoral process in order to elect a psychologically imbalanced neophyte. Republicans - led by Mitch McConnell - stopped the intelligence agencies from publicizing this information prior to the election, because they wanted to win more than they gave a shit that we were electing a psychologically imbalanced neophyte.
Clinton won a substantial plurality of the popular vote. Trump literally won on a technicality. He is the least popular person ever to enter the White House, and that unpopularity is likely only to increase.
He has empowered a cabal of the most radical people to ever hold power in this country. I'm saying that as a historian and I'm sorry/not sorry if it comes off as hyperbolic. They want to - in no particular order - cut Social Security benefits to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy; privatize Medicare; toss 20-23 million people off their health insurance; roll back as much environmental protection as they possibly can; and of course, FSM only knows what they will do to race relations and immigrants.
Paul Ryan's fiscal plan is a nightmare of upwards redistribution of wealth - already the most pressing economic problem we face, and ironically the thing that "elected" Trump.
So the Trump administration can be summed up in the following ways:
- Of dubious electoral legitimacy, due to outside interference and a failure of the Electoral College.
- A magnification of the concentration of wealth in the 1%.
- An assault on the environment.
- An assault on non-whites.
- An assault on women.
This is why we can't "get over it" because we lost. The Republican Party, over the course of the 21st century has become a radical outlier. They have embraced an extremist agenda of plutocracy, anti-science and vote suppression. This accelerated after Democrats took over the Congress in 2006 - prompted in part by the GOP efforts to privatize Social Security - and so there has always been a buffer between the radicals and the commonweal.
That's gone. We lie naked and exposed to the worst impulses of the Tea Party and the Robber Barons.
My own estimation is that these policies are going to be a disaster. Hopefully, they will be a disaster soon enough to flip at least one house of Congress in 2018. But they will eventually be a disaster.
When that happens - and hopefully there will be enough of America left to salvage - it is incumbent to make sure that we understand the history of these years. It's important that we understand the following.
Donald Trump is not going to screw us over and run us into a ravine. The Republican Party is. They are inseparable.
Friday, December 9, 2016
This Is A Good Idea
Let's move some governmental agencies to the Rust Belt. Personally, I would add Montana and Wyoming to that list, because why the hell not. If you were to move the National Geologic Survey and National Weather Service to Missoula, that would have a pretty nice effect on that state's education demographics. Frankly, there needs to be a way to un-do the Big Sort. You can't really coerce private enterprises to do so, but if you moved the National Health Service to Cleveland, you would really change aspects of that community for the betterment of all.
Yes And No
The argument that Trump can be popular by divorcing himself from his own policies is an...interesting one. Presidents get blamed for everything. They get blamed for the weather.
The Trump Two Step is legitimately a thing. Trump is adept at changing the subject from poor policy decisions by doing or saying something outrageous. When a truly troubling story comes out, he quickly does something like insult the cast of Hamilton or pick a fight with some average citizen. And the press - like the freaking morons that they are - follow the shiny object of the latest Tweet and lose the thread of what's really important.
However...Trump's policies are objectively bad ones. He might get a short term bounce out of some of them, but they are mostly crappy and unpopular ideas. If Paul Ryan tries to privatize Medicare or Tom Price shuts down ACA or there is massive fraud in the infrastructure projects or there is an oil spill that the EPA ignores...that will accrue to the President.
Also, some of the ideas that Trump really does seem to care about - notably trade - are also objectively bad ideas. Rumors of a 45% tariff on Chinese goods? That's a colossally bad idea. Same with withdrawing from NAFTA. If tens of thousands of people start losing their jobs AND the price of many consumer goods goes up, then Trump won't be able to distract the masses with a Twitter fight with Lady Gaga.
Increasingly though, the key to surviving Trump is allowing him to pick these trade fights, while opposing rollbacks of important programs domestically, then reaping an electoral harvest in 2018 that will allow them to investigate what is sure to be massive levels of corruption.
Two things to remember about this election. First, Democrats won a bunch more votes. Second, Trump voters are fickle and likely to stay home or flip back to Democrats if they feel betrayed. This isn't the hardcore Teanderthals I'm talking about, but those counties that went from being 60-40 Romney to 80-20 Trump.
The Trump Two Step is legitimately a thing. Trump is adept at changing the subject from poor policy decisions by doing or saying something outrageous. When a truly troubling story comes out, he quickly does something like insult the cast of Hamilton or pick a fight with some average citizen. And the press - like the freaking morons that they are - follow the shiny object of the latest Tweet and lose the thread of what's really important.
However...Trump's policies are objectively bad ones. He might get a short term bounce out of some of them, but they are mostly crappy and unpopular ideas. If Paul Ryan tries to privatize Medicare or Tom Price shuts down ACA or there is massive fraud in the infrastructure projects or there is an oil spill that the EPA ignores...that will accrue to the President.
Also, some of the ideas that Trump really does seem to care about - notably trade - are also objectively bad ideas. Rumors of a 45% tariff on Chinese goods? That's a colossally bad idea. Same with withdrawing from NAFTA. If tens of thousands of people start losing their jobs AND the price of many consumer goods goes up, then Trump won't be able to distract the masses with a Twitter fight with Lady Gaga.
Increasingly though, the key to surviving Trump is allowing him to pick these trade fights, while opposing rollbacks of important programs domestically, then reaping an electoral harvest in 2018 that will allow them to investigate what is sure to be massive levels of corruption.
Two things to remember about this election. First, Democrats won a bunch more votes. Second, Trump voters are fickle and likely to stay home or flip back to Democrats if they feel betrayed. This isn't the hardcore Teanderthals I'm talking about, but those counties that went from being 60-40 Romney to 80-20 Trump.
Thursday, December 8, 2016
The Collapse Of Norms And Competence
This story is both nothing and everything. Trump wants his "employees" to sign non-disclosure agreements. What he fundamentally fails to understand is that the federal government employees do not work for him. They work for the Federal government.
Trump, like most civic illiterates, has no idea how the government really works and has no idea that the President is not an emperor. He cannot expect the standards that he applied in the private sector will apply in the governmental sector.
The problem is that currently there is no branch of government willing to hold him accountable for violating laws and norms. The GOP has long been "an insurgent outlier" - in the words of Norm Ornstein - when it comes to violating rules and norms. So if we are expecting the House or Senate to rein him in, we are bound to be disappointed.
Obviously, the minority party has a role to play and theoretically journalism can expose issues.
Those are pretty weak reeds to lean on.
The Democrats have never been especially adept at opposition. They fundamentally want to govern, not obstruct. They have to learn to obstruct.
As for journalism, there is a growing consensus that much of Trump's victory was accomplished by a feckless, conflict-driven media that led to relentlessly negative coverage of Hillary Clinton, especially in the final weeks, with Comey's bullshit interference and the need to express "fairness and balance" by equating Clinton's run of the mill bureaucratic fouls with Trump's egregious behavior.
In some ways, I can see Trump not even running again in 2020, if we make him miserable enough.
Let's get to work.
Trump, like most civic illiterates, has no idea how the government really works and has no idea that the President is not an emperor. He cannot expect the standards that he applied in the private sector will apply in the governmental sector.
The problem is that currently there is no branch of government willing to hold him accountable for violating laws and norms. The GOP has long been "an insurgent outlier" - in the words of Norm Ornstein - when it comes to violating rules and norms. So if we are expecting the House or Senate to rein him in, we are bound to be disappointed.
Obviously, the minority party has a role to play and theoretically journalism can expose issues.
Those are pretty weak reeds to lean on.
The Democrats have never been especially adept at opposition. They fundamentally want to govern, not obstruct. They have to learn to obstruct.
As for journalism, there is a growing consensus that much of Trump's victory was accomplished by a feckless, conflict-driven media that led to relentlessly negative coverage of Hillary Clinton, especially in the final weeks, with Comey's bullshit interference and the need to express "fairness and balance" by equating Clinton's run of the mill bureaucratic fouls with Trump's egregious behavior.
In some ways, I can see Trump not even running again in 2020, if we make him miserable enough.
Let's get to work.
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Holy Crap
Allen West might be the craziest person in modern politics. I wouldn't put him in charge of the Department of Redundancy Department. I bet Trump makes him Secretary of State.
Help Us, Ivanka-Wan Kenobi; You're Our Only Hope
A lot of people are understandably dubious about Al Gore's meeting with Donald Trump. As always with Trump, you have to be careful not to fall for the optics and focus instead on the actual steps being taken. Just about every single policy decision that Trump has embraced would be disastrous for the environment.
But I think Martin Longman is right. You take the shots available to you. Trump will be president. It is possible the only thing that can keep him sane are his children and we all agree that Ivanka is the "smart one." If I were an interest group advocate, I would be working Ivanka as a resource to try and moderate her father's knee jerk contrarianism.
But I think Martin Longman is right. You take the shots available to you. Trump will be president. It is possible the only thing that can keep him sane are his children and we all agree that Ivanka is the "smart one." If I were an interest group advocate, I would be working Ivanka as a resource to try and moderate her father's knee jerk contrarianism.
Monday, December 5, 2016
Damn Straight
Josh Marshall is correct that Democrats and liberals can't fall into our reflexive political contortionist posture. We have absolutely zero reason to bend over backwards for the "New Normal." Trump is a con man and a kleptocrat, and I anticipate that this will be the most corrupt administration in US history.
Don't reason with this fraud, fight him. And this is where the great mass of angry activists can make a real difference. Not with Trump, but with our elected Democrats who have a reflexive ability to try and wrap themselves around what they think are our institutions.
Those institutions are rubble. Get used to it.
Don't reason with this fraud, fight him. And this is where the great mass of angry activists can make a real difference. Not with Trump, but with our elected Democrats who have a reflexive ability to try and wrap themselves around what they think are our institutions.
Those institutions are rubble. Get used to it.
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Cause And Consequence
That will be the name of the Jane Austen novel about the Trump Era.
Josh Marshall has a very good analysis of Trump's Taiwan call. He notes that every once in a while, we should challenge closely held shibboleths of our foreign policy. I would suggest that re-examining the closeness of our relationship with Israel every one in a while would be a good thing.
What is instructive about Trump is that he neglects the consequences of pretty much everything he does. For the most part, throughout his life he has glided over responsibility for his mistakes. Wealth is funny that way. It will be interesting to see how much he can change at age 70, as the world makes it clear to him that he's fucking up.
Again, as Marshall notes, Trump is surrounded by a very hawkish group of advisers. And he himself is largely ignorant of things. I confess that I myself was ignorant of the elaborate kabuki that surrounds communications between the US and Taiwan. I am not however ignorant of the tensions in this three way relationship.
Trump has already introduced friction into our relationship with China...excuse me, Jina...with his trade-based economic nationalism. Now he's made a yuge blunder, and given his nature will likely double-down. Maybe we poke our noses further into the chaos of the South China Sea disputes.
For years, I have been telling students that the US and China will not go to war, because we are too intricately bound to each other via trade and other contacts. This is the whole point of the Bretton Woods trade liberalism program. You don't shoot your customers.
Trump's ignorance, belligerence and impulsivity throws all that up for grabs. So, for the first time, I will have to say that perhaps we will go to war with China. Simply because of who sits in the White House.
Marshall makes an interesting connection between the Cheney-Hawks wing of the GOP and the collapse of the Agreed Framework that controlled North Korea's nuclear program. Clinton had put in place a framework that kept PRK from getting nukes, in return for some modest economic benefits. Cheney and Stephen Yates - Trump's new China advisor - scuttled that and, surprise!, North Korea proceeded to get a nuclear weapon.
Anyone want to bet that we will scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal? Anyone want to bet Iran gets a nuke? Anyone want to bet Saudi Arabia follows suit?
Institutions function, because we don't pay any attention to them most of the time. They are like traffic laws. We can bitch about having to stop at a stop sign at 12:40 AM, but I think we'd notice if suddenly all traffic laws went away, and not in a good way.
I put the odds of America getting in a shooting conflict over the next four years at 40-60 in favor.
They won't be able to help themselves, and it worked for Dubya. I doubt it will have the same impact for Trump in a post-Iraq world.
But I've been very wrong about this man and this country so far.
Josh Marshall has a very good analysis of Trump's Taiwan call. He notes that every once in a while, we should challenge closely held shibboleths of our foreign policy. I would suggest that re-examining the closeness of our relationship with Israel every one in a while would be a good thing.
What is instructive about Trump is that he neglects the consequences of pretty much everything he does. For the most part, throughout his life he has glided over responsibility for his mistakes. Wealth is funny that way. It will be interesting to see how much he can change at age 70, as the world makes it clear to him that he's fucking up.
Again, as Marshall notes, Trump is surrounded by a very hawkish group of advisers. And he himself is largely ignorant of things. I confess that I myself was ignorant of the elaborate kabuki that surrounds communications between the US and Taiwan. I am not however ignorant of the tensions in this three way relationship.
Trump has already introduced friction into our relationship with China...excuse me, Jina...with his trade-based economic nationalism. Now he's made a yuge blunder, and given his nature will likely double-down. Maybe we poke our noses further into the chaos of the South China Sea disputes.
For years, I have been telling students that the US and China will not go to war, because we are too intricately bound to each other via trade and other contacts. This is the whole point of the Bretton Woods trade liberalism program. You don't shoot your customers.
Trump's ignorance, belligerence and impulsivity throws all that up for grabs. So, for the first time, I will have to say that perhaps we will go to war with China. Simply because of who sits in the White House.
Marshall makes an interesting connection between the Cheney-Hawks wing of the GOP and the collapse of the Agreed Framework that controlled North Korea's nuclear program. Clinton had put in place a framework that kept PRK from getting nukes, in return for some modest economic benefits. Cheney and Stephen Yates - Trump's new China advisor - scuttled that and, surprise!, North Korea proceeded to get a nuclear weapon.
Anyone want to bet that we will scuttle the Iranian nuclear deal? Anyone want to bet Iran gets a nuke? Anyone want to bet Saudi Arabia follows suit?
Institutions function, because we don't pay any attention to them most of the time. They are like traffic laws. We can bitch about having to stop at a stop sign at 12:40 AM, but I think we'd notice if suddenly all traffic laws went away, and not in a good way.
I put the odds of America getting in a shooting conflict over the next four years at 40-60 in favor.
They won't be able to help themselves, and it worked for Dubya. I doubt it will have the same impact for Trump in a post-Iraq world.
But I've been very wrong about this man and this country so far.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Friday, December 2, 2016
The Moral Is: Don't Nominate HRC Again
Jon Chait does the best post-mortem yet of the election.
His takedown of Bernie Sanders is important to read, too. I would quibble that we may come to see James Comey's actions as decisive, but it's clear that Clinton's liabilities were what allowed that to BE decisive.
This is a key 'graph:
The most unpopular nominee in the recorded history of polling managed to very, very narrowly beat the second-most-unpopular nominee in the recorded history of polling in handful of swing states, while losing the national vote by 2 percent. Because of this, Democrats can escape their nominating disaster. Republicans can’t. None of us can, course — a fact that is very bad for the country, but also good for the opposing party.
Here is the genesis of my new word: Trumpenfreude (n), A state of taking pleasure in the failures of your national government because it proves you were right about an overgrown racist Oompa Loompa becoming chief magistrate.
His conclusion is particularly apt:
The party that needs to search its soul about whether it has the capacity to govern competently is not the one out of power. And what should concern Democrats is not whether they’ll get back in power but what will be left of the country when they do.
And that's the downside of Trumpenfreude. I firmly believe that - if we have free and fair elections - Trump loses in 2020. Perhaps in epic fashion. But he could so damage the country that digging out from his mess could be beyond the powers of any one party.
America has had a nice run as a "hyperpower," but those days are likely over.
Make American Mediocre Again.
His takedown of Bernie Sanders is important to read, too. I would quibble that we may come to see James Comey's actions as decisive, but it's clear that Clinton's liabilities were what allowed that to BE decisive.
This is a key 'graph:
The most unpopular nominee in the recorded history of polling managed to very, very narrowly beat the second-most-unpopular nominee in the recorded history of polling in handful of swing states, while losing the national vote by 2 percent. Because of this, Democrats can escape their nominating disaster. Republicans can’t. None of us can, course — a fact that is very bad for the country, but also good for the opposing party.
Here is the genesis of my new word: Trumpenfreude (n), A state of taking pleasure in the failures of your national government because it proves you were right about an overgrown racist Oompa Loompa becoming chief magistrate.
His conclusion is particularly apt:
The party that needs to search its soul about whether it has the capacity to govern competently is not the one out of power. And what should concern Democrats is not whether they’ll get back in power but what will be left of the country when they do.
And that's the downside of Trumpenfreude. I firmly believe that - if we have free and fair elections - Trump loses in 2020. Perhaps in epic fashion. But he could so damage the country that digging out from his mess could be beyond the powers of any one party.
America has had a nice run as a "hyperpower," but those days are likely over.
Make American Mediocre Again.
Thursday, December 1, 2016
We Deserve Some Good News
Here are some stories that can possibly make you feel good, because FSM knows we need it.
Maybe we won't deport all those DREAMer kids.
Republicans probably can't kill off Medicare and possibly can't kill off Obamacare, because they will need cover that Democrats (hopefully) won't give them.
In fact, maybe the departure of Obama from the stage will make Obamacare popular enough to save.
Turns out the polls weren't wrong after all.
People are waking up to the fact that a Trump Administration will be a full-scale giveaway to Wall Street. That should play well on Main Street...
Maybe we won't deport all those DREAMer kids.
Republicans probably can't kill off Medicare and possibly can't kill off Obamacare, because they will need cover that Democrats (hopefully) won't give them.
In fact, maybe the departure of Obama from the stage will make Obamacare popular enough to save.
Turns out the polls weren't wrong after all.
People are waking up to the fact that a Trump Administration will be a full-scale giveaway to Wall Street. That should play well on Main Street...
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