It has become fashionable since President Trump was elected for liberals and major media types to lament the lawless expansion of executive powers, to champion constitutional restraints, and to worry about populism. What isn’t new, and has indeed been around for a century or more, is the Left’s claim to be the enemy of the big business and corporate agendas.

If these pretentions were even slightly true or sincere, Democrats and CNN would have cheered President Trump’s actions Friday, in which he ruled, in accordance with every law court and all common sense, that the Department of Health and Human Services may not dole out subsidies to insurance companies that Congress has not first appropriated.