The Scammers, the Scammed and America's Fate
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/the-scammers-the-scammed-and-americas-fate.html
The Scammers, the Scammed and Americas Fate
Paul Krugman | MARCH 24, 2017
Many people are horrified, and rightly so, by what passes for leadership in todays Washington. And its important to keep the horror of our political situation up front, to keep highlighting the lies, the cruelty, the bad judgment. We must never normalize the state were in.
At the same time, however, we should be asking ourselves how the people running our government came to wield such power. How, in particular, did a man whose fraudulence, lack of concern for those he claims to care about and lack of policy coherence should have been obvious to everyone nonetheless manage to win over so many gullible souls?
No, this isnt a column about whatshisname, the guy on Twitter, whos getting plenty of attention. Its about Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House.
Im writing this column without knowing the legislative fate of the American Health Care Act, Mr. Ryans proposed Obamacare replacement. Whatever happens in the House and the Senate, however, theres no question that the A.H.C.A. is one of the worst bills ever presented to Congress.