Never, not once have they surrendered let alone preemptively surrendered. I think most of us suspected Trump was more a blue dog democrat and with NYC roots he is used to working “across the aisle” to get something done. I don’t think any of us saw the GOP as the true surrender monkeys that they are.
Overall, Trump surrendered indefensible turf (indefensible by GOP standards) to the Dems as a way of leveraging the GOP in the future. It is a huge gamble. My bet is this delivers the final blow to the GOP.
But what is the end result of the final blow? Just working with the Dems on what they want????
We have left leaning people in the WH right now..from Gary Cohn to Ivanka to Dina Powell to Mcmaster and on and on and on.