It has more or less been Republican strategy for a few decades (deliberate or not) to leave the country a mess for Democrats to clean up. It’s not like Bush/Cheney were really all that competent either-- quagmires in Iraq and Afghanistan, bigger national debt, tax cuts that don’t “trickle down” etc.
The whole GOP strategy on Obamacare was to refuse any involvement, then claim they were excluded from the process, then do everything in their power to hamstring the program, then point out “it’s a failure just like we predicted.”
Republicans are good at running for office, but they aren’t good at governing. They can stoke fears but they never allay them.
