I don’t understand how he blew it. Bush was great after 9/11 and went straight into a nose drive. He forgot how to fight a war and seems hell bent on destroying this country. Bush might as well surrender to the terrorists at this point.
Instead of leading he has tried, unsuccessfully, to be “the President of all the people”.
Remember a long time back, when essentially there wasn’t a dimes worth of difference between the parties. We may be headed back that way. I think some of the party big-heads have decided that there is too much political divisiveness going on and that conservative values just don’t really pay that well.
They can pass this bill and a certain number of conservatives will split off and wander in the political wilderness, but likely more conservatives will shrug it off and continue to support the party on some level. It may mean minority status for a time, but there will always be openings to gain power again.
For many Republicans at the top of the food chain bringing the social conservatives to heel would be worth a passing minority status. Labor gets cheaper. Profits go up. The hell with values.