Really? It’s numbers. Even if you think every member of the HFC is a “conservative,” there are something like 30 of them, leaving 180 or so who aren’t “conservatives.”
Then in the Senate, you have on ANY GIVEN ISSUE perhaps 10 conservatives, but some of them can go wobbly depending on the issue.
So out of 535 legislators, you have 40 conservatives. Explain how you get what the “Rs want?” Cuz the Rs don’t really want it. About 40 conservatives (and even then, that number fluctuates) want it.
Trump + 40 vs. 495. Those are tough odds.
The problem for the President, LS, as I see it, is he ran so convincingly on being strong, tough, unafraid ... and above all else a successful negotiator. These qualities are taking on some major tarnish in a very short period of time.
Trump was elected on the strength of his word-—on the strength of his promise.