Trump was supposed to provide leadership to overcome them, not to reinforce them.
Everyone seems to forget how many times this board has reacted to the appearance of Trump caving. He hasn’t yet, and I am comfortable waiting to see how this ends because I think Trump will come out on top. At least we have someone arguing for conservatism in Washington now. As for phase 2 and phase three, if left to Ryan and McConnell, phase 2 would be more excuses, and phase three would be even more excuses.
As someone new to dealing with the political scum of this country, I'm willing to give Trump some latitude regarding his tacit acceptance of this "initial step", however as he did with leaving the Obama scum in place throughout the bureaucracy, he should not make the same mistake and underestimate the gutlessness and deceit of these GOPe vermin.