Another example of toxic reframing by the right, labelling rolling back progress "reform". Sounds so much happier than "let's kick 2440 million people off their health insurance and give ourselves a fat tax break!"

But you know, I'm starting to wonder if they haven't been a little too clever with their attempted mind-fuckery over the decades. I think their attempt to "reform" Obamacare into oblivion fell apart, in part at least, because of the basic intellectual incoherence of their six years of outrageous lying about Obamacare. Trump railed bitterly against an imaginary Obamacare, and it really looked like the legislative repeal effort was based on dismantling something that existed only in their fevered imaginations. How else to explain why they thought they could better a program hammered out over an epically painful year, in just 17 days?

Who knew health care was so hard? Who knew tilting at monsters from the id would produce nothing but chaos?

The right's become nothing but a massive source of noise in public discourse. They gave up long ago on trying to come up with "ideas" (who knew ideas could be so hard?), and for years have just concentrated on degrading the judgment of the American electorate enough to vote for their bullshit. But along the way the made the cardinal mistake of propaganda: They believed their own bullshit. And now they can't think any straighter than their base. And it shows.

Sad.