The So-Called Trump Circus

by Rod D. Martin
August 19, 2018

I love the Wall Street Journal, but sometimes they -- like a lot of Republicans -- completely miss the ever-lovin' point. Take this paragraph:

"The Trump Administration’s regulatory rollback continues to be overshadowed by the White House circus. In case you missed the news late last week, the Education Department is moving to reverse two Obama rules that would have cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars and diminished education options for students who can’t afford tuition at Stanford or Georgetown."

What's wrong here? Simple: The regulatory rollback -- which the Journal rightly considers amazing -- is not being "overshadowed by the White House circus", but rather is being enabled by it.

What do I mean? Think back to the last decade, when Bush attempted various deregulations, or when poor Alberto Gonzales attempted to be a solidly conservative Attorney General, or when the President pushed Social Security reform.

Didn't get very far, did they? Because b…