He admitted that his campaign “plan” on health care was completely worthless, as it was dreamed up without any understanding whatsoever of how the health-care system actually worked. He might as well have promised an extinct dodo in every pot and a flying car in every garage. Which he likely did at some point.

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This accounts, of course, for the policy mess the GOP is now saliva-wrestling with in trying to come up with some replacement for Obamacare. This comes as no surprise to people who actually paid the least little bit of attention to the health-care debate. It was knowable and known to anybody who actually cared that you couldn’t keep the expensive and popular parts of the Affordable Care Act without the parts that pay for them. The rest of the GOP is trying to help Trump clean up his mess now, but their problem is the same as his. They have been promising the same sort of impossible scenarios ever since the law was passed and began working.

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Republicans now say they have a secret new medicine that they promise will cure what ails you. “Freedom.” That’s right, freedom is their solution to health care. What this means is freedom to pick out a health-care plan that fits your needs and then find out you can’t afford it. Freedom to not go to the doctor because you can’t afford to. Freedom to let nature take its course, and freedom to suffer in silence while it does. Freedom to die from a curable disease. Best of both worlds: Live free AND die!

The bottle of Trump Freedom Elixir you have purchased turns out to be filled with nothing but air, because freedom is as free as the air you breathe.

Except now that Trump is cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget, it won’t actually be air anymore, it will be chemicals.