Coal Miners Who Voted for Trump Are Now Terrified to Lose Obamacare

[Virginiá]

If all these people indeed lose their health insurance and their lives become far worse because of it over the next 4 years with little respite, and Trump is unable to offer a compelling reason why Republicans and himself shouldn't be held responsible, then many could turn on Republicans in a temporary fit of rage. It's going to be very difficult to pass the buck on this. Kansas is a decent example of how decreasing quality of life attributed to GOP policy can turn reliable Republicans against their party - it wasn't enough in KS 2014 but it came very close, even in a GOP wave year.

On the other hand, even if they turn on Trump, that doesn't necessarily mean they will turn on any and every Republican. However, it's things like this that make it hard for me to see reelection for the orange one.

Also, I'm curious about Manchin here - would he vote to support repeal? If it goes south on the GOP/repeal supporters, he could find himself booted out of office in 2018. All things considered, at least from my point of view, helping repeal PPACA will definitely harm Manchin if coverage rates collapse prior to 2018 midterms.

[Virginiá]

I don't want to be cynical but they'll just blame liberals for there problems even you pointed out despite the obvious horrible job in Kansas Brownback did he still won because these people only care about "god and guns"

To be fair, I did acknowledge that he just barely won. The problem is, Kansas is reliably and deeply Republican, but for Brownback to even skirt that close to a loss in a GOP wave year under an incumbent Democratic president that is unpopular in Kansas, well, that is pretty bad.

You're actually not that wrong on the blame shifting, though. There are studies about this. Partisanship and political identity is deeply embedded, and many diehard partisans will often reject ideas that challenge their views and look elsewhere for an answer. But, even this can only take so much.