Instead of being fiscal scolds and rejecting the renewal of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, the party ought to limit them to middle-and-working-class Americans.

What Bill Clinton Learned from Jim Hunt and Why It Still Matters

It was a beautiful North Carolina spring day in 2000 at the governor’s mansion in Raleigh, and Governor Jim Hunt was sprinting down the giant ruby-red stairs. I was his then-young press aide, and we were running late because he had been on the phone with President Bill Clinton. Naively, I noted something about their discussing a state issue. Without missing a beat, the governor said of Clinton, his fellow Democrat, “I was telling him what he was doing wrong with the country and how to fix it!” So began my real education in politics, which I was quickly learning…

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