Call it the Jonathan Gruber election

Jonathan Gruber is the Ford professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. He got his Ph.D. at Harvard. As a White House consultant, he helped to design ObamaCare and was then caught afterward on videotape explaining its passage by talking about "the stupidity of the American voter." Well, if anyone is "stupid" in this story, it's not the voters, but the academics that in their hubris designed an Affordable Care Act that became so unpopular that it beca

Jonathan Gruber is the Ford professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. He got his Ph.D. at Harvard. As a White House consultant, he helped to design ObamaCare and was then caught afterward on videotape explaining its passage by talking about "the stupidity of the American voter." Well, if anyone is "stupid" in this story, it's not the voters, but the academics that in their hubris designed an Affordable Care Act that became so unpopular that it beca…