Usually campaign promises are either too vague to be contrasted with reality (“Make America Great Again”) or too long term. Others were lies, which they knew to be lies at the time. Because they didn’t expect to win that campaign, they didn’t expect either their ignorance or their dishonesty to be revealed. 350 million pounds a week, as fact-checkers showed over and over. Now the budget battles are looming and, unsurprisingly, Mexico seems no more likely to pay for a border wall than Brexit is to free up 350 million pounds a week for Britain.

Source: Washington Post September 08, 2017 23:26 UTC