The first trick to passing potentially unpopular legislation is to delay the pain until at least after the next electoral cycle, but still till after you are out of office and in that cushy lobbying job that "public service" was just a stepping stone for. So it is with the GOP tax bill. The tax cuts expire long after current administration has gone back to golfing on his own dime rather than the taxpayers'.
The second is to ensure that the pain is concentrated on a small segment that is too small or disenfranchised to matter: African Americans, the sick, poor families' kids. Then only the vicarious indignation of others will matter. Politicians bank on the fact that by distracting them with other shiny objects the mildly empathetic will forget about the disenfranchised.
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