Trump and Ryan fear the GOP faces a 'bloodbath' in 2018. They may be right.

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4. Exactly. Where would the rabid repealers go, even

if there were half as many as he's pretending? Ryan has to worry about failure to get and keep control for 2018 and that voter turnout could drop, and this is just him pretending to represent "the people's" wishes.

He wants to take away all they gained under the ACA, while they imagine he's just pretending to do that by giving it a new name and not requiring them to pay for it. The longer he can keep them fooled,... Wonder if he lulls himself to sleep with fantasies of providential terrorist attacks.