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When all their young people move to a bigger city to find work, Republicans who voted for Trump to deport the Haitians will blame Democrats for their failing city and loss of jobs.

One thing media could do that it never does is a true analysis of federal programs. Here are the promises and goals of a piece of legislation. A year later, here is what has happened, including both the intended and unintended effects. A rational cause-effect analysis of most federal legislation would be of great benefit to voters. As a good example, the media rarely reported the effects of Trump’s 2017 tax cut. Occasionally an article would mention that in added several trillions to the federal debt. What about the jobs promised? What about the actual tax savings for the muddle class and poor? How much of the benefit went to different groups of people?

Such analyses take time and effort, which us shat reporters used to do. Now they just rehash whatever Trump says and call it done.