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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
I wonder how much this is complicated by specifically Trump. I think it would have been alot easier with somebody like Rubio etc as POTUS who could go on camera, answer questions and sound like he at least understands the bill, even if was just as much of a disaster.
Yeah. Any good GOP President, relatively speaking, would have read the bill carefully, which in this case is so short and simple Congress has bragged about it, and would have convinced the American people all of its provisions were necessary and good. We've already seen Americans have a deep distrust of experts. If Trump had bothered to offer a competing explanation of the bill to the CBO's, it would at least have the unified support of his base, around 39% of the public. Instead this thing polls at half that number, in large part because Trump is too stupid and disinterested to do any of that.