Dems Are Fooling Themselves about Tax Reform's Unpopularity

According to political analysts, Democrats in 2018 will use the just-passed tax reform as a way to argue that the Republican party is the party of the plutocracy, which is another way of saying that Democrats are going to use the same argument they've been using for the past three decades with varying degrees of success. A number of liberals have claimed that the passage of unpopular tax reform is historically analogous to the passage of Obamacare, which triggered the loss of hundreds of Democratic seats and, perhaps, Democratic control of the presidency. This is wishful thinking, for a number of reasons. Yes, the tax bill is unpopular ...