>>107092016
The important part is that Trump keeps polling lower and lower. While just kinda lying and preying on the ignorance of low info citizens is a huge gamble, it sometimes pays off. Here, however, he's not exactly arguing from a position of strength. He picked a dumb battle. It would likely have been better if he capitulated early and as quietly as possible. Let democrats take their victory lap and then cause some other crisis later. It's just that people are already predisposed by virtue of the general poor performance of his policies to be mad at him. His approval is only one point higher than it was at this point in 2017 and the trend line is downward.
It was just a dumb fight to pick. Democrats are frozen out of power almost completely, and this is a fight worth taking. It turns something that could have been a fucking WIN for Trump into a political disaster. He easily could have just told his lemmings in congress to extend the subsidies and claimed victory for preventing premiums from rising.
Similarly, democrats could have also had a better win by just letting them expire. They'd be completely blameless, and people would be fucking FURIOUS if their premiums doubled. Maybe I'm naive, but from time to time politicians do actually do the right thing instead of the politically expedient thing. This might be one of those times.
