No one’s talking about the new tax law: Republicans hoped to make their $1.5 trillion overhaul the centerpiece of the 2018 midterm elections — but Americans, including President Trump, have lost interest. The Trump tax cuts’ unpopularity is a crisis for the GOP. Paul Ryan suggests trillion-dollar deficits were inevitable. On the deficit, GOP has been playing us all for suckers. The Gospel According to Paul: Chris Lehmann on how a cynical Randian hustler played a myopic D.C. press corps for suckers. Donald Trump sold out to Paul Ryan, not the other way around: As president, Trump has embraced Ryan’s chilling policy agenda. Will Wilkinson on the self-destruction of Paul Ryan and the G.O.P.
