It was as if the right had studied the tactics of Nader’s Raiders and adopted them for their own purposes. The 2017 Regulatory Accountability Act, which Republicans proposed but couldn’t pass,80 was a good example. For every major regulation, it would have forced the government to open a period of comment and solicit alternative approaches from the public, given those affected the opportunity to cross-examine the agency proposing the rule at an oral hearing, forced the publication of ongoing frameworks for evaluation, and much more.
