September 20, 2016 11:17AM 

# Gerson: If Trump Wins, Blame ObamaCare 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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Washington Post columnist and former Bush 43 speechwriter Michael Gerson has not always been charitable toward libertarians. He has been pretty good on Donald Trump and ObamaCare, though, and today [he ties the two together](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-trump-wins-blame-obamacare/2016/09/19/09ee5568-7e98-11e6-8d13-d7c704ef9fd9_story.html):

> Only 18 percent of Americans believe the Affordable Care Act has helped their families…A [higher proportion](http://www.npr.org/2014/06/04/318733298/more-americans-than-you-might-think-believe-in-conspiracy-theories) of Americans believe the federal government was behind the 9/11 attacks than believe it has helped them through Obamacare…
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> Trump calls attention to these failures, while offering (as usual) an apparently random collection of half-baked policies and baseless pledges (“[everybody’s got to be covered](http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2015/09/28/donald-trump-on-obamacare-on-60-minutes-everybodys-got-to-be-covered-and-the-governments-gonna-pay-for-it/)”) as an alternative. There is no reason to trust Trump on the health issue; but there is plenty of reason to distrust Democratic leadership. No issue — none — has gone further to convey the impression of public incompetence that feeds Trumpism.

[Read the whole thing.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/if-trump-wins-blame-obamacare/2016/09/19/09ee5568-7e98-11e6-8d13-d7c704ef9fd9_story.html?utm_term=.c8b1c286e097)

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