One of the most striking aspects of what was, in Dana Bash's (CNN) rather surprising words, a "shit-show", was how hollow Trump appeared. It's slightly surprising that he can still make grand promises, whether it's on economic recovery, a vaccine, cheaper drug prices, protection for pre-existing conditions, when he's made the same promises so many times before and never delivered, and when his actions tell a completely different story.
Take health care; he has said every time he was questioned about his efforts to dismantle Obamacare, that he would put something better in its place. Yet after almost an entire term in office with full control of both houses for the first two years, he has done nothing.
His apparent belief that he can make the same promise over and over without people realizing that it's all just show is an insult to the intelligence of the public. You can fool some of the people all of the time (that's his hard-core base) and all of the people some of the time (including Barack Obama, Hilary and Susan Collins, for example, who though he deserved a chance). But you can't fool all of the people all of the time, and that's what Trump seems not to understand.
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