Donald Trump's first press conference since the election basically confirmed he's easily the least suited person to be president who ever got anywhere near to the office. The office he will occupy in nine days. Candidate Trump displayed vast ignorance of policy and of basic rules of how the government works. On Wednesday, President-elect Trump utterly failed to demonstrate that he's learned anything. On health care, on Russia, on anything. For example, Trump claimed he'll be issuing a "plan" to replace Obamacare as soon as his Health and Human Services secretary is confirmed. But he didn't even hint at any broad outline of what might be in such a plan, and spent most of his answer on health care ... well, I don't even know what to call it. Babbling about Obamacare? That's about the closest I can get. He said nothing that even hints he understands anything about it: How Congress is handling the issue, what policy questions are at stake, or even (still) what the Affordable Care Act i...
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