Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Harris, an artist — a Rembrandt — of vagueness, says she will ‘seek practical solutions to problems’ based on ‘realistic assessments’ and apply ‘metrics’ and ‘facts’ and stay ‘focused.’ Clear enough? She also says: ‘I will engage in what Franklin D. Roosevelt called ‘bold, persistent experimentation.’’ (FDR’s goal was to put Americans back to work. In mid-1938, after almost five years of bold, persistent experimenting, unemployment was 20 percent, fewer than four points better than in January 1933.) … Trump evidently believes that the tax code is insufficiently complex, budget deficits are too small, the cost of living is too low and presidents should cudgel companies into behaving as presidents want.” (10/02/24)