By Daniel Henninger
There was always something eerie about the way the Democrats said their health-care legislation was what the American people had waited “70 years” for. Invoking the ghosts of 1939 was kind of creepy. Then when the moment in history finally arrived, history got no votes from the other party. Whatever the politics, there was something ominous about all this. One felt something else was going on.
A Pew Research Center report just out, the one that says trust in government is at an “historic low” of only 22%, looks like the something else.
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