President Trump’s threats against members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus this week fit a pattern of pointed attacks that helped create his outsider appeal to voters — but may hamper his ability to work within an insider system.

After at least a half-dozen Freedom Caucus Republicans held out against pressure from the White House to support a healthcare reform bill that Trump had backed, the president took to Twitter to warn the conservative bloc to “get on the team” admonish them for moving to “snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”