Democrats' denial on health care may produce Trump's reelection - The Washington Post - 0 views
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In 1993, as Bill Clinton’s administration arrived jauntily promising a root-and-branch remaking of a health-care sector less complex than today’s, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) was warning: “Ideological certainty easily degenerates into an insistence upon ignorance. The great strength of political conservatives at this time (and for a generation) is that they are open to the thought that matters are complex. Liberals have got into a reflexive pattern of denying this.”
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Such denial breeds political recklessness in the deniers, dismay among voters and despair among people who know things. Next year, with the most complex domestic problem — health care — uppermost in many voters’ minds, denial might produce a president’s reelection.