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Commentary By Jason L. Riley

Democrats Try to Undo the Best Part of Trump’s Legacy

Voters rejected his bad behavior. His policies on taxes and regulation were largely successful pre-pandemic.

The Democratic Party has a more complicated relationship with Donald Trump than it likes to admit. It wants voters to remember the nonstop chaos of his administration, his Twitter rants, how he debased the presidency on Jan. 6 and won’t stop lying about the 2020 election results. Fair enough.

But Democrats also need voters to forget the success of the pre-pandemic economy and support efforts to reverse policies that abetted faster growth. The reality is that when Mr. Trump wasn’t embarrassing himself, he was advancing a more or less traditional Republican agenda of lower taxes and lighter regulations. The upshot was an acceleration in economic activity, higher labor-force participation rates and narrowing racial inequality.

Continue reading the entire piece here at The Wall Street Journal (paywall)

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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. He is the author of the recent book “The Black Boom.”

This piece originally appeared in The Wall Street Journal