If Trump Weren't Pres., What Would Critics Say About Economy?

Tax reform critics insist the economy is “not good,” all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Pity their predicament. Lauding the economy means crediting the policy driving it — lower taxes — and the politics that produced it, in particular President Trump. Finding neither palatable, a flaw must be produced; yet in creating one, critics must ignore their own recent argument and facts about America's labor force.

Perhaps the stock market has been over-bought and recent reverses represent a compressed correction. However, it is unquestionably overwrought with self-contradictory concerns that would interpret success as failure. Here, tax reform critics' fingerprints appear prominently.