So many interesting articles today that you get another one of these…
- Robert W. Merry, editor of The American Conservative, smells failure in the air for the Trump Administration and thinks that will lead to the country moving to a hard-left Liberal trend. Before you get all excited about this, remember that Mr. Merry's idea of Liberal Takeover is probably that we keep the Minimum Wage.
- William Saletan says that Trump is doing his darnedest to destroy Obamacare and sell the idea that it's a failure. Well, we knew that but Saletan thinks the idea here is to get people to not compare "Trumpcare" to the Affordable Care Act but to compare it to an alternative of nothing.
- That's because, as Tara Golshan notes, Obamacare is still way more popular than the Better Care Reconciliation Act. I suspect it always will be.
- Kevin Drum offers a primer on the five basic forms of health care — Socialist, Single-Payer, Multi-Payer, Subsidized Private and Private. There's a lot of discussion out there from people who think one of these is the only one that can possibly work but it's worth noting that all five exist in the United States and some of them have been around for a pretty long time.
- Joe Conason says Trump and Newt Gingrich should stop trying to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller. You know, the only reason you try to discredit someone in his position is that you're expecting him to uncover something you'd rather not have uncovered.
And as with most days in the last year or three, it's a very good day to not be Chris Christie. When the careers of some politicians end, they don't seem to know it. This guy has to know.