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That’s a leading question and you know it. Are YOU resigned? Because you claimed that this bill would lead to single payer, and this is the bill that’s being passed.

Here’s what would happen if Trump advocated for a clean repeal. It would get lots of news for a few weeks, and then Congress would vote against it and it would be an embarrassing defeat and probably would never come up again.

When a clean bill of repeal came up before the House, it got maybe ten percent of the members’ support. If Trump full-heartedly campaigned for it, I suspect that with how much they’re bought and paid for, he could push it up to maybe 40 percent, on a good day.

In other words, no chance for a clean repeal what-so-ever. Not this year at least.

Then the Democrats would run on single payer in 2018 and 2020 and win, especially with the fact that Obamacare would collapse and it’d be easy to pin it on Republicans and Trump for not doing anything, and convince enough LIVs for it.

If you want to avoid single payer, you have to 1: act NOW, and 2: take every step you can in the opposite direction, even if it’s barely a baby step. Refusing everything except the perfect solution you want is one big reason that we’re in this mess in the first place.

We got to this point via incrementalism. There’s no way that we’ll be getting out except by the same way.