The real crisis is that all the roads ahead are fraught with peril.
It’s going to make sense to a lot of Democrats to keep chasing the electorate in that direction.
But even if Democrats were brave enough to let it rip, bolder policies also require a functioning administrative state to administer them.
Right now, the Supreme Court is not committed to the administrative state’s survival and is more likely to keep dismantling it.
All that said, Trump might very well run up against the problem of unfulfillable promises a lot sooner than the Democrats.
He can’t create a more efficient government by asking a noodlehead failure like Elon Musk to manage it.
He can’t put a quack like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of public health without people getting a lot sicker. »
