Trump has forced congressional Republicans to put him above the law — but not above the conservative agenda
This party’s big enough for the both of them. Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Donald Trump has “completed his takeover of the GOP” and now enjoys the “complete fealty” of its officials.
After months of wrangling, House Democrats finally passed a massive bill aimed at lowering drug prices. And Senate Republicans are flummoxed over how to respond. Yet McConnell is “staying put.” His caucus’s principled conservatives believe that when the state intervenes in the pharmaceutical market to raise prices and juice profits , that is free-market economics — but when “big government” intervenes to aid consumers at the expense of Merck’s shareholders, it’s socialist tyranny. And, at the end of the day, the GOP’s long-standing principles ostensibly count for more than one president’s whims.
Notably, subordinating his own political interests to the GOP Establishment’s fiscal agenda did not earn Trump any “fealty” on his campaign’s defining issue: When the White House’s official immigration plan came before the Senate in February 2018, 14 Republicans voted against it. The mainstream press exaggerates Trump’s power over congressional Republicans because it refuses to recognize the gulf between the GOP’s stated values and its actual ones. The modern Republican Party has never been a stickler for balanced budgets, unfettered trade, or constitutional restraints on executive authority . It has always been happy to abet presidential lawlessness when doing so advanced the conservative movement’s ideological goals.
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