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We totally agree with her.
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It's called
'leadership', Donald. The terrorists were dead 8 minutes after police
got the call. If we need an alarmist blowhard, we'll call. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/871328428963901440 …
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The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Columnist
Making Ignorance Great Again
Donald
Trump just took us out of the Paris climate accord for no good reason. I
don’t mean that his decision was wrong. I mean, literally, that he
didn’t offer any substantive justification for that decision. Oh, he
threw around a few numbers about supposed job losses, but nobody
believes that he knows or cares where those numbers came from. It was
just what he felt like doing.
And
here’s the thing: What just happened on climate isn’t an unusual case —
and Trump isn’t especially unusual for a modern Republican. For today’s
G.O.P. doesn’t do substance; it doesn’t assemble evidence, or do
analysis to formulate or even to justify its policy positions. Facts and
hard thinking aren’t wanted, and anyone who tries to bring such things
into the discussion is the enemy.
Consider
another huge policy area, health care. How was Trumpcare put together?
Did the administration and its allies consult with experts, study
previous experience with health reform, and try to devise a plan that
made sense? Of course not. In fact, House leaders made a point of
ramming a bill through before the Congressional Budget Office, or for
that matter anyone else, could assess its likely impact.
When
the budget office did weigh in, its conclusions were what you might
expect: If you make huge cuts in Medicaid and reduce subsidies for
private insurance — all so you can cut taxes on the wealthy — a lot of
people are going to lose coverage. Is 23 million a good estimate of
those losses? Yes — it might be 18 million, or it might be 28 million,
but surely it would be in that range.
So
how did the administration respond? By trying to shoot the messenger.
Mick Mulvaney, the White House budget director, attacked the C.B.O.,
declaring that it did a “miserable” job of forecasting the effects of Obamacare. (It got some things wrong, but overall did pretty well.) He also accused the office — headed by a former Bush administration economist chosen by Republicans — of political bias, and smeared its top health expert in particular.
So,
Mr. Mulvaney, where’s your assessment of Trumpcare? You had plenty of
resources to do your own study before trying to pass a bill. What did
you find? (Actually, the White House did do an internal analysis
of an earlier version of Trumpcare, which was leaked to Politico. Its
predictions were even more dire than those from the C.B.O.)
But Mulvaney and his party don’t study issues, they just decide, and attack the motives of anyone who questions their decisions.
Which brings us back to climate policy.
On
climate change, influential conservatives have for years clung to what
is basically a crazy conspiracy theory — that the overwhelming
scientific consensus that the earth is warming due to greenhouse-gas
emissions is a hoax, somehow coordinated by thousands of researchers
around the world. And at this point this is effectively the mainstream
Republican position.
Do
G.O.P. leaders really think this conspiracy theory is true? The answer,
surely, is that they don’t care. Truth, as something that exists apart
from and in possible opposition to political convenience, is no longer
part of their philosophical universe.
The
same goes for claims that trying to rein in emissions will do terrible
economic damage and destroy millions of jobs. Such claims are, if you
think about it, completely inconsistent with everything Republicans
supposedly believe about economics.
After
all, they insist that the private sector is infinitely flexible and
innovative; the magic of the marketplace can solve all problems. But
then they claim that these magical markets would roll over and die if we
put a modest price on carbon emissions, which is basically what climate
policy would do. This doesn’t make any sense — but it’s not supposed
to. Republicans want to keep burning coal, and they’ll say whatever
helps produce that outcome.
And
as health care and climate go, so goes everything else. Can you think
of any major policy area where the G.O.P. hasn’t gone post-truth? Take
budgeting, where leaders like Paul Ryan have always justified tax cuts
for the rich by claiming the ability to conjure up trillions in extra
revenue and savings in some unspecified way. The Trump-Mulvaney budget,
which not only pulls $2 trillion out of thin air but counts it twice,
takes the game to a new level, but it’s not that much of a departure.
But
does any of it matter? The president, backed by his party, is talking
nonsense, destroying American credibility day by day. But hey, stocks
are up, so what’s the problem?
Well,
bear in mind that so far Trump hasn’t faced a single crisis not of his
own making. As George Orwell noted many years ago in his essay
“In Front of Your Nose,” people can indeed talk nonsense for a very
long time, without paying an obvious price. But “sooner or later a false
belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” Now
there’s a happy thought.
