Red Ink: The Politics Of Fiscal Insanity

Over the past nine months, the Trump administration has been subjected to withering criticism for the President's willingness to throw caution to the wind by mortgaging the country's future in the interest of turbocharging a late-stage expansion with deficit-funded fiscal stimulus. The President's defenders both in the mainstream media (and especially in the blogosphere) invariably employ the old Soviet "whataboutism" strategy. "What about Obama?" "What about Democrats' reckless fiscal policies