“The Republicans have all three branches - and we still have to fight tooth and nail.”
We have one branch.
The two others are just not controlled by Democrats.
This leadership failure is more calamitous than you describe. We have the House. The Senate. The White House. The SC soon swinging our way. But the real kicker is not just owning all the branches... we own the levels as well.
We have the vast majority of governors and vast majority of state legislatures to boot!
I don't know if there has ever been this many stars aligned for a rollback of federal power to the states.
Yet what we do get coming out of the gate?
Entitlement for the enemy and promises for the troops.
People forget but Paul Ryan was a conservative rock star initially. He was the Donald Trump of entitlements. He was finally going to slay that dragon and move them to the states. Then he went sour. That is the part to remember, he did not start out a big govt guy.
This is Trump's Ryan moment.
He either takes on Ryan here and demands something Freedom-oriented rather than central dependency-oriented.
Or he goes sour and becomes Ryan.