House Republicans Go Off the Cliff
The Republicans were given a gift by Trump’s campaign, a grace they did not merit: the gift of freedom from the trap of dogma, from the pre-existing condition of zombie Reaganism, from an agenda out of touch with the concerns of their actual constituents.
.. Were Trump actually governing along the populist lines he promised, the intra-Democratic debate over
- “identity politics versus
- class politics versus
- making it all about Trump (and Russia?)”
would be fraught and complicated, the best course of action murky.
.. the central Democratic argument in 2018 and 2020 should be entirely clear: Trump is not a populist but just another pro-plutocracy Republican, and everything his party promised you on health care was a sham.