[gogeo]

I don't know to what degree it's possible to quantify factors like this.

Can it be seriously argued that this mess had no effect on his presidency? That his polling was not adversely affected?

The results of enacting his policies speak for themselves. What does a 55-60% approval rating make possible? Does the House flip?

[Alberta's Child]

That's a valid point. It IS difficult to quantify those things. But I'm making those statements based on what I know damn well to be the political agenda of the Republican Party, and the phony political grandstanding the GOP does as a matter of course.

I predicted in 2010 that the GOP would never repeal ObamaCare. I was right.

We all knew -- even before 2016 -- that the Republican Party is dominated by open-borders "free traders" in Washington. Heck -- Donald Trump was the first presidential candidate in my lifetime who ran his campaign in direct opposition to key elements of his own party's national platform (immigration and trade).

Trump has been an embarrassment to the Republican Party since the day he announced he was running for President. The party is filled with a bunch of feckless, corrupt @ssholes from top to bottom. Isn't that what we all found so appealing about Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, folks?