re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and enough people would buy that argument

Here’s the thing: Anybody who’s hoping that the defeat of Trumpcare will negatively affect Trump in 2020 is betting on a losing hand. When the ACA turned to be full of compromises to get the Blue Dogs onboard, the DNC base was savage in its criticism and it showed in the midterms. And yeah, a lot of the base had gotten over that initial flash of anger by 2012, but there was still a significant portion who felt “betrayed” and stayed home or voted third party.

By contrast, come 2020, the list of people that the Trump base will blame if Trumpcare is not law will make War and Peace seem short. They’ll blame the DNC for opposing it, they’ll blame the Congressional GOP for not falling on their swords to pass it, they’ll blame the CBO for its “false” estimates, they’ll blame the media for “lying” about it, etc, etc. They will not hold him personally responsible, will not pay attention to his positions on it that shift like desert dunes, and the lies they’ll tell themselves will be more numerous than the stars in the sky.

Win, lose, or fail, the only people who will pay a political price for Trumpcare will be the Congressional GOP. The people who voted for Trump are too delusional to hold him responsible.