Trump’s tax returns won’t save Democrats from drowning

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That Democrats actually think there might be a point to score in seizing President Trump’s tax returns says everything about how clueless they are heading into 2020.

There is no indication that voters actually care about this (they didn’t in 2016), nor that there’s anything to gain in waving around a piece of paper from the IRS. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released 10 years’ worth of tax returns last month, and he’s sitting a comfortable 20 points behind Joe Biden in the latest RealClearPolitics national average.

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