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 Originally Posted by Savy
The bit about healthcare is better but at the same time you're putting quite a positive framing on it, you could make out that all these things are weak leadership, not being able to get the backing of his own party, lack of parliamentary understanding (american equivalent), not having a strong standing on actual policy, etc.
It certainly looks like that normally. I've been saying it's different from the beginning because I watched what Trump was saying at the beginning. Trump has been subtle enough about what he said that it's not evidence of anything, since the confirmation bias of the viewer is more than enough to counter. But believe me, there is big reason behind why even before the first Ryancare thing got going, many of us in the Trumpian circles thought no bill would pass for quite a while.
On a side note, a huge problem we have is people are mostly made up of those who think Trump is a buffoon and those who think Trump is a genius. To the former, everything he does looks buffoonery, to the latter everything looks genius. The truth is something much more regular. My bias tends slightly on the genius side, but I know it so I try to bring it back when I can. An example is that I initially thought that Trump didn't want healthcare to pass until late, but then I was corrected by somebody who understands Trump's writings well. He is putting himself in a win-win situation. If it passes soon via a functional GOP, he wins; if it doesn't pass until the whole thing collapses next year and legislators are scrambling to make a deal, he wins. From what he has said in public statements, it has been my estimation from the beginning that the latter is what he thinks will happen.
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