You might think that as Donald Trump and Paul Ryan set about the grim task of deconstructing how this Republican-controlled federal government blew their much-hyped Obamacare replacement—you know, the thing they've been railing about for seven years—in such spectacular fashion, the days ahead will require that they make some careful, hard, honest decisions about how the party can regroup and move their agenda forward. Instead, both men appear to have devised their own strategies for burning this motherfucker down.

Bright and early this morning, your president took to (what else?) Twitter to wax poetic about the Freedom Caucus, that intransigent group of far-right loons whose refusal to support the bill functionally sealed its fate.

This strategy is, to put it delicately, so astonishingly stupid that calling it a "strategy" is insulting to actual strategies that have even a modicum of reason behind them. Right now, Republicans hold a 237-198 edge in the House, which means that if Trump loses the support of a mere 20 representatives, he won't be able to get a damn thing through for God knows how long. Guess how many members make up that Freedom Caucus with which the president is now picking one of his trademark petty social media fights? 36.

You'll never believe this, but Trump's 140-character shot across the bow did not go over well with House Freedom Caucus members.

If Trump is indeed cool with losing the Freedom Caucus' support, he'll need to earn the backing of some Democratic members in order to cobble together a coalition that can get a bill to his desk—probably a pipe dream, but one for which he's already laying the groundwork. Unfortunately, Speaker Ryan, in the grand tradition of the skilled diplomats and expert negotiators who previously occupied his seat, has already declared that exploring bipartisan compromise will not happen on his watch.

What I worry about…is that if we don’t do this, then he’ll just go work with Democrats to try and change Obamacare, and that’s hardly a conservative thing.

As Tennessee senator Bob Corker immediately pointed out, it's a pretty damning indictment of both Ryan's legislative capacity and also the general state of American politics that a sitting Speaker is publicly urging the President not to work with members of the other party in order to solve a problem. Trump and Ryan appear to have very different ideas about how to best deal with these warring factions, and unfortunately for Republicans, this divergence threatens to pull the party apart. The President's insistence on harassing and alienating key members of the fragile GOP majority threatens to torpedo the party's agenda and, if he keeps his promise to support primary challenges of the holdouts, might even put that majority in jeopardy in 2018. And while Trump writes off the House's conservative wing, Ryan is publicly foreclosing the possibility of working with the left. Unless these two strategic geniuses put their heads together and decide on a coherent strategy posthaste, be prepared for more embarrassing, Trumpcare-magnitude failures very soon.

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