What Went Down On Night 1 Of The RNC

Agreed, Perry. Scott’s speech is a style of conservative optimism that hasn’t really been in fashion since at least 2012.

Tax code! Is Paul Ryan being paged?

Republicans’ central legislative achievement of the Trump administration was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The main part of that legislation mentioned tonight has been opportunity zones, which at the time did not gain that much attention. Scott was influential in its inclusion.