Dear Media:

You still don't get -- or won't say -- why Republicans, now controlling both Congress and the Presidency -- cannot seem to "repeal and replace" Obamacare, despite previously having sent multiple repeal bills to President Obama.

It's very simple. Republicans obtained Congress and the Presidency largely by propagandizing that Obamacare is "tyranny!", "failing", "a train-wreck", "built to fail", "can't be fixed", "socialism", "a bailout for insurers", etc. Many Republican politicians didn't actually believe that bullshit [1] and those lies. They were merely expedient rhetoric with which to take power.

But now, having obtained power, Republicans have become responsible for crafting a bill that will become law, not just one that President Obama would veto.

And that means that they must face pushback from the majority who want to preserve and improve Obamacare (or who are horrified by Trumpcare), not just supportive ranting from a GOP base that largely believes the propaganda.

"Repeal and replace" is, thus, caught in the contradiction between propaganda and reality.

It is your responsibility, dear media, to break this news to the public, so that we can decide whether to give political power to a party of propaganda.

[1] "Bullshit" technically is a statement intended to persuade, made without regard to whether it's true. See Frankfurt, Harry, "On Bullshit", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit .