Let’s be clear about one thing: Pulling the Trumpcare bill was NOT a defeat for Trump and the GOP.
It was a FAILURE.
Failure is different from defeat and is much, much worse.
Let's use a football analogy. We can have a football team that is made up of top-flight All-American players. The team is disciplined; they practice and practice and practice; every player is at the peak of conditioning; they execute plays flawlessly; the coaches keep everyone focused. They go into a game at the peak of readiness with an excellent game plan. Yet, they lose. It happens every Saturday and Sunday during football season.
Defeat is not what happened here. What happened here was complete failure. Failure in every respect. Failure to plan, failure to practice, failure of conditioning, failure of coaching . . . absolute failure.
And the Trump administration is not finished failing.