The problem with the Republican platform? There is no Republican platform.
By Catherine Rampell Opinion writer June 5 at 7:23 PM
What’s holding back the Republican agenda?
It’s not the toothless Democrats, despite what you may have heard from President Trump. Five months ago, when Trump moved into the White House, they lost their grip on their last lever of significant Washington power.
Likewise, it’s not Trump’s infernal nocturnal tweets, unhelpful though they may be.
Neither is it the distraction of nonstop news about Trump’s aides’ ties to Russia or the president’s own possible attempts to obstruct justice. Nor is it leaky White House staffers, nor the operatives of the “deep state.”
So what’s actually obstructing the Republican agenda? It’s the fact that there is no Republican agenda.
For years Republicans, including and especially the party’s current standard-bearer, have promised magic bullets for nearly every social, economic and global ill, no matter how complex. But this was not a policy platform; this was a series of bluffs disguised as a policy platform.
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