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Trump and the GOP won on parallel tracks in 2016, uneasy and poorly seamed allies. Republicans did it traditionally keeping Trump at bay, while he managed to unlocked the economic unrest of the Upper Midwest.
Dominating the executive and legislative brances, having an opportunity to forge a new American system for a very long time, the GOP is what Daniel Henniger describes as "reinventing the circular firing squad."
"Even a politician of such limitless cynicism as Chuck Schumer is agog: “We are on offense and united. They are on defense and divided, the opposite of what people would have predicted a month or two ago.”
"Maybe in politics, genes really are destiny. Under pressure from a CBO “score,” the genetic disposition of Republican politicians is to go wobbly. The disposition of movement conservatives is to get out the long knives and start carving up other conservatives.
"The result will be guaranteed political defeat for years if congressional Republicans choke at the chance to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
The Republican ObamaCare Choke
Dominating the executive and legislative brances, having an opportunity to forge a new American system for a very long time, the GOP is what Daniel Henniger describes as "reinventing the circular firing squad."
"Even a politician of such limitless cynicism as Chuck Schumer is agog: “We are on offense and united. They are on defense and divided, the opposite of what people would have predicted a month or two ago.”
"Maybe in politics, genes really are destiny. Under pressure from a CBO “score,” the genetic disposition of Republican politicians is to go wobbly. The disposition of movement conservatives is to get out the long knives and start carving up other conservatives.
"The result will be guaranteed political defeat for years if congressional Republicans choke at the chance to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
The Republican ObamaCare Choke