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Catherine Rampell: Tax cuts were supposed to save the GOP from Trump. Oops.

Voters would ignore the president’s Twitter outbursts, his Cabinet’s private-jet and redecoration scandals, the Russia investigation, porn star and Playmate payoffs, and many other miscellaneous embarrassments.

Voters were supposed to be so very grateful to have a little extra pocket money that they would be willing to overlook all that nonsense and eagerly cast their ballots for the GOP come November.

Just 27 percent of Americans believe the GOP tax overhaul was a good idea, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Even among Republican voters, the tax cuts are not exactly thunderously popular: A little more than half (56 percent) say they were a good idea.