The entire mission of the current version of the GOP is to get to a point of dominance where they can simply rule rather than have to exert the effort to govern. Gerrymandering, collusion with hostile governments at election time, voter disenfranchisement, are all tools they are using to illegally tilt every election in the parties favor until such a time as they get to whatever they damn well please. That is almost upon us with the November elections but the mess they have made already shows what incompetents they are. Trump makes an ass of himself with lies and nonsensical tweets and the Republican dominated congress has to make sycophantic asses of themselves by agreeing with the lies and all in the hopes that trump will sign off on their always more and bigger tax cuts for their uber wealthy campaign contributors. Ryan's plan now is to get rid of the taxes that the wealthy  pay for the subsidies of the ACA and replace those with taxes on employee provided health insurance. Sad. Sad