[Tench_Coxe]

"Worse still, the professional Republicans acted as if they were the dog that just caught the car. Now they had no excuses, and as a result there was an exodus of retirements announced from the caucus of the professionally Republican to begin in 2018."

An inconvenient reality that agenda posters on FR leave out when they say "Trump lost the House in 2018", as though he were to blame.
No, Ryan and company decided to backstab the electorate who put them there, believing that they would follow through.

[cotton1706]

“No, Ryan and company decided to backstab the electorate who put them there, believing that they would follow through.”

You’re correct. They never REALLY wanted to repeal Obamacare or overturn Roe vs Wade or secure the border (to name just three examples).

They were all playactors who helped the Democrats at every turn.