The long term damage is going to be horrific.

Ever think that Trump does not want a working Congress? The Congress is the one power center that can actually remove him from office. It is absolutely necessary for Trump to break its power. The other power centers, like the media and the judiciary and the intelligence community Trump frames as enemies and can delegitimatize. The Congress is different. They helped him get elected and they are legitimatizing his administration. So what does he do? He makes sure that they are unable to govern. He has stepped on every effort the Republicans have made to pass legislation and then, he blames them.

Yet the Republicans, who have been living in a fantasy world about ACA, tax reform, LGBT rights, are still in the fantasy land that Trump is the leader of their party and that he is actually trying to pass their agenda.

First Trump breaks their power, then he will require them to pass legislation that he will get credit for.

Every day Trump is eviserating our democracy, working toward a one-party system that will be under his control. All by legitimate means.

he has given them a voice they have never had

If trump was as great as they claim maybe we would not complain, he is not nor will he ever be. We have to tolerate and we have to organize to have good candidates in every position for the 2018 elections and get ready for 2020. Our nation is going down the tubes with the republicans, too far right and not concerned for the rights and lives of American citizens.