David Drucker reports for the Washington Examiner on the U.S. House speaker’s latest statements about health care reform.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that Americans are rejecting the Democrats’ knee-jerk opposition to President Trump and boldly predicted that Americans would reward Republicans in 2018 for following through on a healthcare agenda that, for now, is deeply unpopular.

In an impromptu interview to discuss the Republicans’ four special election victories, including last week’s crucial win in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District, Ryan said the liberal strategy for dealing with Trump has been discredited. So, too, the speaker added, would doubters of his party’s legislation to partially repeal Obamacare.

“The Democrats are in disarray. All they’re doing is suggesting they’re going to come and fight and resist, and I don’t think that’s what voters want,” the Wisconsin Republican told the Washington Examiner. “We just saw four victories for tackling problems and addressing issues, and four defeats for just simple resistance — and that was the basis of their campaign.”

The “resistance” is a slogan used by many of Trump’s opponents on the Left.

Just days away from a critical Senate vote for companion legislation to the House-passed American Health Care Act, Ryan’s happy talk on healthcare struck a familiar tone.