Trump’s Rally Rhetoric Collided With the Facts on Health Care
The rally also revived Trump’s habit of claiming to protect people with preexisting conditions while his administration backed legal efforts that threatened those protections. That contradiction was already a political liability in 2018, and his West Virginia stop gave critics another clean example of the gap between the slogan and the governing. In plain English: he was selling a shield while helping yank it away.
First recorded Sep 30, 2018·Meaningfully updated Sep 30, 2018
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Trump’s Rally Rhetoric Collided With the Facts on Health Care
The rally also revived Trump’s habit of claiming to protect people with preexisting conditions while his administration backed legal efforts that threatened those protections. That contradiction was already a political liability in 2018, and his West Virginia stop gave critics another clean example of the gap between the slogan and the governing. In plain English: he was selling a shield while helping yank it away.
The rally also revived Trump’s habit of claiming to protect people with preexisting conditions while his administration backed legal efforts that threatened those protections. That contradiction was already a political liability in 2018, and his West Virginia stop gave critics another clean example of the gap between the slogan and the governing. In plain English: he was selling a shield while helping yank it away.
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