Friday, March 24, 2017
Why the first 60 days of the Trump Presidency has been a gift to Democrats
If the President and his team had been shrewd given their popular vote loss, they would have put forth infrastructure and tax reform measures up first that, depending on how the legislation was crafted, could have attracted bipartisan support and public good will. That could have carried over to the harder issues on health care and immigration. There is no guarantee that the outcome would not have remained the same, Both measures are too hard for even some center-right politicians to swallow. However, it would have stood a better chance. Doing the immigration and health care fights first only created bad will and division at the time when the president should have been enjoying some semblance of a honeymoon. Now tax reform or even infrastructure, even if the health plan passes today, may be in doubt even if these proposals have good ideas in them. Democrats and Progressives need to take the fumble and run with this ball. You do not get many opportunities like this.
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