I’ve been tweeting him back. Freedom Caucus supporters are Trump supporters. I feel like he is targeting his own supporters. Why??? Are they that tone death in the White House?
I’m beginning to believe that old story about all new incoming presidents being shown some movie.
“I feel like he is targeting his own supporters. Why???”
You’re joking, right? The FC personally handed Trump the biggest defeat of his presidency so far and embarrassed him badly in the process. Haven’t you been out of the conservative bubble at all since this debacle happened? The narrative prevalent is that Trump is a “wounded” president, whose entire agenda in office is already in danger of collapsing unfulfilled. The left has been celebrating like it’s the Fourth of July and Christmas rolled into one. They’ve gloated at what they consider to be their own victory over Trump, and they are making fun of him for claiming to be a great negotiator, while they say its now very obvious he’s just an incompetent blowhard.
Regardless of what you think of the FC and how happy you are over the flawed Ryancare going down, you really can’t see why Trump is upset over this? Really? I feel like a lot of people on FR have become disconnected from the rest of the country over this issue. It’s fine to celebrate Ryan’s bill going down on its merits, but all this insistence that this wasn’t a big blow to Trump’s presidency, that we are going to get a much more conservative health care bill somehow passed through Congress now, and that the FC are his best friends after stringing him along without compromising is just bizarre. What Trump is doing is trying to put pressure on them, so he doesn’t have another disaster with his next big legislative projects that might be fatally crippling for his presidency.