Yesterday morning, we wrote that 17 House Republicans opposed or leaned strongly against the GOP health-care plan that's scheduled for a vote Thursday. Then President Trump visited Capitol Hill and appeared to threaten GOP lawmakers, saying that they could lose re-election in the 2018 midterms if they vote against the GOP health-care bill, NBC's Leigh Ann Caldwell writes. After that visit, the number of Republicans opposing or leaning strongly against the legislation grew to 27, per NBC News' count — when Trump and GOP leaders can't afford more than 21 defections.
I think in general people don’t respond well to threats – vague or direct. And that’s what his visit was – not one of outreach, one of threats. He’s used to saying what he wants people to do then having them do it. I look forward to his tantrums on the matter.
Bullshit like this makes me super sweary and generally angry. Like, want to punch him with an old International Harvester school bus full of nitroglycerin barrels, angry.