NYT: Republicans Worry That White House Disarray Is Undermining Trump

[Miles Archer]

President Trump and Republicans in Washington have shaken the confidence of their supporters after a punishing and self-inflicted series of setbacks that have angered activists, left allies slack-jawed and reopened old fissures on the right.

A seemingly endless sequence of disappointments and blunders has rattled Mr. Trump’s volatile governing coalition, like Mr. Trump’s attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions; a vulgar tirade by his new communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci; and the collapse of conservative-backed health care legislation.

Mr. Trump remains overwhelmingly popular with Republicans, but among party loyalists and pro-Trump activists around the country, there are new doubts about the tactics he has employed, the team he has assembled and the fate of the populist, “drain the swamp” agenda he promised to deliver in partnership with a Republican-controlled Congress.

“There is a significant amount of justified frustration, particularly with the Senate,” said Robin Hayes, the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, alluding to the health care defeat. “I don’t want to use any Scaramucci language this morning, but it’s their inability to function as a team, to work together and come up with a responsible win.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/us/politics/republicans-white-house-disarray-trump.html

[sharedvalues]

1. GOP worries Trump will expose their hatemongering and billionaire agenda

...that should be the real headline

[unblock]

2. Republicans, in freefall off high cliff, worry that impact at bottom might hurt a bit.

Derp dee derp derp derp.

[Leith]

3. They Are Taking the Jobs of Hardworking Democratic Ad Writers

All they need to do is copy and paste, then show how our side can clean up their mess.

The biggest problem is living (literally! Shout out to BPMan here) with their mess.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. What we have to understand is 49 republican senators and 230+ in the house or

whatever it was voted to kill thousands of us and destroy the lives of millions more

And they will do that again and again.

They never have to worry about their base, their base will believe them when they blame us for losing healthcare.

[Me.]

5. What Are THey Talking About

He is the chaos and disarray

[enough]

11. Yes, that headline is an exercise in tortured logic. NT

[phylny]

14. Yup, I read the OP and thought, "Trump is undermining Trump." n/t

[Hieronymus]

6. It's about time they realize it.

[ProudLib72]

7. Breaking: Now that tRump has cut ties with GOP

Repukes want to prop him up. Senator McTurtle said, "Please, oh please Dark Lord, we beseech the, change your ways so that we might actually kill millions of people!"

[Iliyah]

8. GOPer politicians and t-rump live in another reality.

Their nutty base will stick with them, at least a small part.

[Big Blue Marble]

9. Incredible amounts of denial

in the midst of disarray!

[6000eliot]

10. News Flash, GOP: Trump undermines himself and always has.

The mess in the White House happened BECAUSE of him, not despite him.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. The rest of us are happy that it is

[TEB]

13. So the lemmings want to turn back before the cliff to late

Ass clowns

[WhiteTara]

15. Trump's disarray is undermining the WH and

the entire country.