Perhaps the most frustrating thing about being a conservative critic of Trumpism is that you often start by agreeing with Trumpworld about ends while disagreeing about means.

The president issued an executive order yesterday to align prescription drug prices in a most favored nation pricing scheme – which would require drug companies to charge U.S. patients the same price they charge in the country with the lowest price for the same drug – aiming to lower the cost of drugs for American patients.

President Trump has asked Congress to pass “one big, beautiful bill” to cut taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars, but on the other hand, Trump has imposed significantly higher taxes by placing tariffs on more than 70 percent of US imports.