Democratic Primaries

seriously considered making creation of a capitalism-based, for-profit healthcare plan the foundation for a run for the presidency. But he couldn't give socialism away and, even though the plan he could sell was the very thing he despised and rejected all his life, he had a great marketing name for it that test flew rather spectacularly.

Meanwhile, Trump was doing exactly the same thing on the right: promising a wonderfully better healthcare program than Obamacare that would cost far less. Promise! Easy! Just do it!

Neither promise had, or to this day has, either a real plan behind it or a path to making it happen. Didn't matter. For both populist insurgents it harnessed the nation's #1 issue to run on -- and provided a supposed "rationale" for destroying the Democrats' Obamacare.

Instead of just completing the excellent healthcare system already in place.