"Obamacare is law of the land" as replacement fails in House

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This defeat means that Trump will have a lot harder time getting any of his ideas done in the Congress in the future. It means that the Freedom Caucus is going to be emboldened and unruly

Here’s my doomsaying narrative:
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Two months in, Turmp has fallen out with his first-week friends for good. But there is a social group that’s much more in line with his racist, fascist, batshist, anti-reality talk-radio outlook, and it’s only a matter of time before he starts hanging out with that group exclusively. Caught between Turmp and their fear of primaries from the right, “moderate” Republicans will bow to this new Axis of Teavil, and the executive and legislative branches will merge into a well-oiled death machine, rubber-stamping law after deranged law until civilisation collapses.

Yeah, you don’t have to worry about that. Trump may make a comeback from here – he’s shown himself to be unexpectedly resilient, weathering scandals and gaffes that should have wrecked the careers of better men – but even in the unlikely case that he does so and throws his lot in with the Tea Party types, a “well-oiled death machine” it will not be. You don’t get well-oiled anything when everyone involved is some combination of incompetent, incoherent, and terminally addicted to grandstanding and diffuse anger.