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Altruism Smothers a Republican Revolution—Again
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Altruism Smothers a Republican Revolution—Again

By Harry Binswanger

Jul 01, 2017
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The failure of Republicans to repeal Obamacare—despite public support for repealing it—marks yet another large-scale demonstration of how morality, not lobbying or machinations or economic arguments, controls government policy.

And it’s the morality of altruism, tragically, that’s thwarted Republicans again.

An earlier instance was the Gingrich-led “Repub…

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