The Real Reason Trump’s Obamacare Repeal Push Failed
Trump’s failure in health care wasn’t tactical. It was that he refused to acknowledge or redress the fundamental issues.
Obamacare repeal has failed again, almost certainly for the final time. Seven years of Republican promises to uproot the thing and mulch the stump have ended in rejection by a Senate with a Republican majority. It’s hard to recall when last a political party inflicted such a defeat upon itself. Obamacare repeal was not one policy idea among many for Republicans, akin to the cap-and-trade plans that fizzled in the Democratic
