The Health-Care Repeal Effort Is Still a Dead Duck, and Trump Keeps Pretending It Isn’t
By October 1, the Republican push to repeal the Affordable Care Act was firmly in the grave, but Trump’s public posture still suggested he thought the corpse might sit up and salute. The failure was not just legislative; it was strategic, because he had spent months promising a win he could not deliver. The result was a party left with no repeal, no replacement, and no convincing explanation for why it kept careening into the same wall.
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The Health-Care Repeal Effort Is Still a Dead Duck, and Trump Keeps Pretending It Isn’t
By October 1, the Republican push to repeal the Affordable Care Act was firmly in the grave, but Trump’s public posture still suggested he thought the corpse might sit up and salute. The failure was not just legislative; it was strategic, because he had spent months promising a win he could not deliver. The result was a party left with no repeal, no replacement, and no convincing explanation for why it kept careening into the same wall.
By October 1, the Republican push to repeal the Affordable Care Act was firmly in the grave, but Trump’s public posture still suggested he thought the corpse might sit up and salute. The failure was not just legislative; it was strategic, because he had spent months promising a win he could not deliver. The result was a party left with no repeal, no replacement, and no convincing explanation for why it kept careenin…
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