Opinion by Paul Waldman: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) decided he was the man to lead Senate Republicans to future glory. An ill-fated challenge to Mitch McConnell based on illusions about what the public wants.
This sorry saga is about something more than Scott’s professional failures. At bottom, Scott’s challenge was driven by a persistent belief among a certain kind of conservatives that the public yearns for old-fashioned supply-side economics and will reward Republicans if they just advocate it more forthrightly.
The same cannot be said of Scott, though in his defense he’s hardly alone. If Democrats are plagued by the often unfounded fear that the public hates everything they stand for, many Republicans have the opposite problem, an overconfident belief that if the public only understood their plan to eviscerate our system of social supports, victory for the GOP would inevitably follow.That was the idea behind Scott’s spectacularly ill-conceived 11-point plan.
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