Magical Economic Thinking at the G.O.P Convention

After the drama of the first night of the Republican National Convention, when the Donald Trump campaign threw Benghazi, grieving mothers, and angry cops at Hillary Clinton under the rubric “Make America Safe Again,” the theme of Day 2 was “Make America Work Again.” Or that was supposed to be the idea.

Anyone expecting the presentation of an economic plan, or even a vague semblance of one, to feature in the proceedings was to be disappointed. In place of prominent economists explaining how Trump’s election would kick-start the American economy, we were presented with Chris Christie, who did a fine impersonation of a representative of the Spanish Inquisition but didn’t say much about job creation and raising wages....
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