May Actions Follow that Match the Words The Republican Party has a well-earned reputation for writing good policy platforms every four years at their Conventions - then doing the exact opposite of nigh all of it once in power. To wit: Unless I am mistaken, the Platform has called for the abolition of the Department of Education every cycle since the abomination’s 1979 creation by President Jimmy Carter (as a payoff to teachers unions for helping get him elected). Yet there the DoE still stands - bigger and worse than ever. A monument to terrible government policy and overreach - and GOP fecklessness. Heck, the GOP has contributed to its growth almost as much as have the Democrats. Well, this is the Year of Donald Trump. In large part because Americans have had it with everyone in DC doing what the GOP has been doing - tone-deaf awfulness combined with utter condescension. A GOP nominee Trump would never have even been possible had not the GOP spent the last several decades talking small government - while actively participating in its expansion. In football parlance - Trump is a Hail Mary pass (