2 things

1. the stack of papers was only for part #1 in a 3-part plan of attack in the R & R agenda. It did not address the numerous replacement clauses in too many existing laws to count. Should these folks get to part #3, I suspect their stack of papers will be at least as high and maybe more so.

2. I think you may be wrong on Mr Trump. I suspect he really believes he is doing something for the people but he is in a fight against ideologues, which he is not. Thus what you see is the ideological positions imputed to him.

The reason I believe this is he does not understand the issues like so many of his supporters and thus has a superficial command of them. Hence his reliance on his ideological allies and his crazy advisors.

It struck me as strange how odd he looked trying to negotiate a compromise among ideologues. Ideas do not have price tags or numerical qualities, so how does he as a real estate consummate negotiator think about this? We will have lots of losers (those who are supposed to be helped), since I suspect this is out of his hands. He is only there for the optics.

ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions