9:44 PM: For those watching at home, ‘purchase across state lines’ means preventing states from being able to regulate health insurers.
9:42 PM: Note the one thread through all the Obamacare repeal discussion: the number of people with no health insurance will skyrocket. That’s the only real standard of success and failure.
9:39 PM: Trump’s ‘infrastructure’ plan appears to contain little or no public spending but is actually based on tax breaks and so-called “public private partnerships”, which are disastrous. Here’s our deep look at the topic.
9:37 PM: This speech is riddled with false claims. I’m curious how much Trump gets away with this since I think people, unsurprisingly, expect most of his statements will be false.
9:35 PM: Remember, ‘America First’ is a phrase first used and historically identified with the anti-Semitic, pro-fascist ‘America First’ movement of the 1930s.
9:31 PM: After a few early notes to the contrary, the theme here still seems pretty dark.
