Sure, the White House can still loudly claim, as it did in a Thursday press release, “OBAMACARE IS COLLAPSING: Across the country, Obamacare is failing the American people, delivering high costs, few options and broken promises.”

But whatever happens from here, the blame (or, possibly, the praise) rests with our reality-show president and his loyal acolytes in Congress.

If Trump gets a real White House signing ceremony this fall or early in 2018, then voters can judge whether they are better off than they were with Obamacare. And if the Republicans fail to fix the problems with Obamacare, even low-information voters will know that the GOP controls the levers of government and refused to act.

Everything may work out for the Republicans, as Washington becomes a land of rainbows and lollipops. Or else the GOP may start angrily searching for the political consultant who came up that pious promise “to repeal and replace” Obamacare.