GOP leaders plan to punt on major fights in Trump agenda bill

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. Agreed.

But this assumes that Congress, which make itself more irrelevant by the day, isn't just dispensed with, and a new budget, with tax cuts and program cuts, is not just issued as an edict.

I'm sorry. I know that's a dark vision. But my confidence in our democracy, our "leaders", and the public, is plummeting. Each day I go to work, and everyone is either avoiding our plan to replay Germany 1933-1945, or enthusiastically supporting it.