Well maybe so. But it depends on what happens next. If Obamacare “collapses” as Trump has said it will - that could be a crisis that is ripe for taking-advantage-of. I hate that some people may be hurt in the process, but today was the opportunity to make a different choice, and some say the Ryan bill would have hurt a lot of people too.
So maybe this is Trump being 3 steps ahead again. Give repeal-replace a good try, but win either way. Because if Obamacare collapses he can walk in and say OK, you didn’t want Plan A (Ryan) so here is Plan B. But Plan “O” would no longer exist (as it does today).
President Trump has said, on numerous occasions, he should let Obamacare fail and hang it on the Democrats.