As we've seen over the last week, the Republicans' proposed Obamacare repeal bill is a bit of a clusterf*ck. It's already aroused opposition from House conservatives and a group of Republican senators. Major medical groups have announced their opposition, and almost needless to say, the Democrats are not on board. Some are now speculating the bill was actually designed to fail, as a way to basically punt on this issue and save the Republicans from a protracted internecine fight on health care policy. I'm not on board with this theory, but it does open up a good perspective on the fundamental strangeness of our political situation. After all, the bill if passed would screw over literally millions of people who voted for Trump, to whom he promised even better health care than ever, and no changes to Medicare or Medicaid. And whether failure was baked into the bill, or whether failure is seen as a possibility, you can see Trump positioning himself, as only Trump can do, by foisting failure of Obamacare on President Obama, even going so far as to say that Obama actually planned for it to fail, after he left office, for unspecified nefarious reasons.