Republicans have this problem: They've promised to repeal Obamacare but repeal means replace and they've never come up with an alternative that the Republicans in Congress can get behind, let alone one which will please most of America. Some G.O.P. reps demand little or no government-directed health care. Others, if only because they're afraid of being lynched by their constituents, want the kind of thing Trump promised but now doesn't care about: Cheaper, better, covering everyone, etc. No one can design a plan to appease both factions so the latest strategy, as Jonathan Chait explains, is to punt and delay having to come up with one.
Donald Trump says Amazon is a monopoly that pays no taxes. Politifact says that's a Pants-On-Fire Lie.
G.O.P. voters think courts should punish "biased" media — which these days pretty much means anyone who prints anything they don't want to believe is so. Such voters also think Trump won the popular vote and I'm guessing some of them think Elvis is alive and hiding out with Hitler on the set of the fake moon landing.
Trump's military ban on transgender people is not going over well with a lot of politicians and sectors of the public. Carly Sitrin has more.
Matt Yglesias reminds us that Trump demands loyalty from others but gives none back. Trump is all about advancing the interests of Trump…not the country, not the party, not even the issues. Just Trump. What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.
Conservative pundit Rod Dreher thinks Trump is showing signs of mental and emotional instability. Considering some of the looneys Dreher has backed, that's quite an admission.
Lastly for now: Daniel Larison says Trump is trying to renege on the Iran nuclear deal. Larison also thinks this would be a disastrous move that would make war a lot likelier and deadlier. Lovely.