When Congress passed its big tax reform bill in December, Democrats and progressives nearly lost it.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., led by example with her own hysterical comments, claiming that it was “the worst bill in the history of Congress.” That implies, without any gray area, that the tax bill was worse than the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, among others.