Remember “The Flight 93 Election“? This was the (in)famous essay in which “Publius Decius Mus” (now ensconced in Pres. Trump’s NSC) essentially posited the 2016 vote was between Trump and The Death of America.

What people tend to forget about the essay is that (like most of its genre) it was far more an attack on conservatives than an argument for Trump. Publius mostly contended that if conservatives were sincere in their concerns, they must believe that America is headed off a cliff, and their failure to embrace Trump as the only viable alternative to the End Times revealed their insincerity and their lack of faith in their own philosophy.

Well, the GOP stormed the cockpit and put Trump in the pilot’s chair. One of his first major acts as Pilot-in-Chief is throwing his weight behind the House GOP’s draft American Healthcare Act, also known as “please don’t call it Trumpcare, even though we’re calling it terrific.”

Even if it’s unfair to call it Obamacare 2.0 (there are, for example, some things to like in the Medicaid reform piece of the bill), Trumpcare is the legislation of pale pastels, not bold colors. It does not even restore the pre-Obamacare status quo, which already had too much government distortion of the healthcare sector.