For the past eight years, Congress has passed absolutely no new economic reforms. I know this because every liberal pundit, every liberal functionary, every elected official in the Democratic Party, and virtually every editorial board in the country has argued that Republicans were engaged in an unprecedented obstruction of Obama’s agenda.
Not long ago, Rattner claimed on MSNBC that Republicans had “blocked every single piece, virtually, of legislation that Obama put forward.” So then what exactly have Democrats done to make wages grow faster? What have they done to make stocks returns grow at such an impressive pace? They’ve done the best thing possible. Nothing.
Yet, for some unfathomable reason, not only did Republicans decide to hand the presidency to Hillary Clinton, they’re now cheering a nominee who is urging his fans to destroy that last safeguard.
From a conservative perspective, surely even a timid Congress is more useful than one which “fixes” Obamacare and overturns the Hyde Amendment and passes anti-gun legislation and revisits cap and trade — and proposes dozens of other bills Republicans allegedly haven’t prevented. This is all going to happen if they lose. In the end, it’s possible that Trump’s most dubious achievement won’t be losing the presidency, but helping create one-party rule.
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