During last Tuesday’s State of the Union address, Trump highlighted the GOP’s success in repealing the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. “We eliminated an especially cruel tax,” he bragged, calling it “the core of disastrous Obamacare.”

Since the individual-mandate repeal is part of Republicans’ broader efforts to kill the ACA and leave millions of Americans without health care, it’s understandable why Trump’s SOTU comments might prompt liberals to flock to its defense. Trump’s celebration of the individual mandate’s death, in a sense, validates Democrats’ efforts since December to resurrect it.

But the truth is, we should let it stay dead.