GOP despairs at inability to deliver

Trump’s rise had already exacerbated a point of internal Republican debate between limited-government conservatives and the blue-collar voters Trump helped draw into the party, voters who were essential to the victories of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush, and who George H.W. Bush and Mitt Romney failed to connect with.

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Many of the latter rely on government subsidies and programs than the former. “You have Republicans who run against Obamacare but actually like Obamacare,” Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday…

The intractability of the Obamacare repeal debate has some conservatives wondering whether the ideological tide is moving against of limited government altogether. “If a Republican won this time around it was going to show that maybe Obama was this historic exception. He got in there because of the financial crisis and then again because of a flawed opponent in Romney,” said Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review. “Now it looks like Trump might just be a very temporary break. It’s a very bad situation.”

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