Politically incompetent and inept The Donald has shown why neophytes have no place in positions of power in our government. People wanted an outsider. they wanted someone fresh to shake things up, drain the swamp, make America great again.
Well, the minority of people who believed in this huckster buffoon just got a dose of reality. More like a five gallon bucket of reality dumped on their vacant heads.
If folks had been paying attention during the campaign, they would have known that days of cleaning up after Donald J. Trump would be long and many in number.
How will Trump and his true believers spin this? They had seven years to come up with a solution. They campaigned for seven years on repeal and replace. Repeal and replace got the biggest applause lines in their many rallies. And the big day comes and they drop the ball.
How will this play in those rural counties that turned out for Trump? The very folks who, for seven years laughed and jeered at President Obama for saying 'if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor'. What will they think after hearing 'on day one' we will repeal and replace Obamacare? Will that statement carry as much political currency as 'like your doctor, keep your doctor'?
Let the spin begin., But it will take a very deep faith in the huckster buffoon, not to mention a healthy dollop of intellectual naiveté to make this mess anything like a win for both Trump and the GOP.