Although I am prepared to cut President Trump a tremendous amount of slack (most of the time) because it seems virtually everyone is always against him, I think your comment at #58 is correct — Repeal was the proper first step, using the marketplace is the proper solution, and tying it all together with tax reform is the thing that makes it all work.
I’m not as optimistic as I was, but if Trump moves to tax reform and approaches this from that angle, he COULD still hit all those points, in a different order. I don’t know if he will try.
Here’s the problem. Repubs have an equal amount of non-budging folks on the moderate side. You watch, the minute we get down to nitty-gritty on tax cuts, MCain and his ilk we walk because there aren’t significant cuts in the budget to pay for it. Trump will state the economy will grow and that will pay for it. That won’t be enough for those particular ideologues. They will kill it.
Politics is the art of the possible. It’s not “I get 100%of what I want or I walk. Conservatives understood this in the time of Reagan. We don’t now. Meanwhile the dems, who don’t care about policy, they care about power, continue to win and incrementally strip our rights and move us towards socialism.
Civil War? Hahh. Real internal war is coming. it will come from within. It will take 100 years to develop, and it will be between those who want Sharia Law, and those who will fight to keep it from happening.