politicalprof:

Republicans used to believe that government shouldn’t pick winners and losers in the economy …

That was supposed to be the job of their god, “the free market.”

Now, having given pointless tax breaks to Harley Davidson to save jobs the company eliminated anyway, Trump is planning to order electricity grid operators to buy coal generated electricity … despite the fact that it is not only dirty, it is also more expensive than natural gas, wind and solar.

Meanwhile, the market has spoken, and natural gas is not only way cheaper than coal, there are also more jobs in the US in solar than in coal.

But Republicans just go along, violating every principle they’ve claimed to believe in for the last forty years.

Way to prepare for the nineteenth century, guys.