I'd concur if the issue was more broady amalagous and unpopular, like healthcare or gutting environmental/safety/labor regs. But what makes immigration different is the GOP position IS NOT unpopular with the electorate. So having it be in the news for the next 6 months when the GOP could be all John Wayne on the border if not for those b…
I'd concur if the issue was more broady amalagous and unpopular, like healthcare or gutting environmental/safety/labor regs. But what makes immigration different is the GOP position IS NOT unpopular with the electorate. So having it be in the news for the next 6 months when the GOP could be all John Wayne on the border if not for those bleeding heart Democrats, doesn't hurt the GOP . . it hurts Democrats.
"Repeal and replace" was popular (or at least near neutral) until republicans started to try and enact it, until it was in the news for months and months and more people had to mentally digest the actual consequences of it.
Trump also didn't make ACA repeal a central part of his 2016 campaign; it was part of his campaign plank but there was no specific plan outlined. Meanwhile he's been saying clearly that once in office he will initiate mass deportations and enact massive tariffs.
That Obamacare became more popular after Trump's election is kind of the point... it was something where we fought. Democrats didn't come together and conclude that ACA repeal would be so disastrous that republicans would eat shit for it and that we should let them do so. No, we stymied them every step of the way. The end result being great for us: republicans took the damage of unpopular policy and they failed to implement the policy at the same time. Which, even if you don't give a shit on humanitarian grounds, is still a great political win for us — it saved us the political costs of going through the process to pass it back into law, or something similar to it!
I'd concur if the issue was more broady amalagous and unpopular, like healthcare or gutting environmental/safety/labor regs. But what makes immigration different is the GOP position IS NOT unpopular with the electorate. So having it be in the news for the next 6 months when the GOP could be all John Wayne on the border if not for those bleeding heart Democrats, doesn't hurt the GOP . . it hurts Democrats.
"Repeal and replace" was popular (or at least near neutral) until republicans started to try and enact it, until it was in the news for months and months and more people had to mentally digest the actual consequences of it.
Same deal here.
I'm pretty sure repealing the ACA was never popular post-2010 midterms. By 2016 most polling showed the public basically 50/50 on the law
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/12/08/4-views-of-the-aca-medicare-and-the-nations-economy/
and it got more popular once Trump became President, not less.
https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/poll-finding/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-june-2017-aca-replacement-plan-and-medicaid/
Trump also didn't make ACA repeal a central part of his 2016 campaign; it was part of his campaign plank but there was no specific plan outlined. Meanwhile he's been saying clearly that once in office he will initiate mass deportations and enact massive tariffs.
That Obamacare became more popular after Trump's election is kind of the point... it was something where we fought. Democrats didn't come together and conclude that ACA repeal would be so disastrous that republicans would eat shit for it and that we should let them do so. No, we stymied them every step of the way. The end result being great for us: republicans took the damage of unpopular policy and they failed to implement the policy at the same time. Which, even if you don't give a shit on humanitarian grounds, is still a great political win for us — it saved us the political costs of going through the process to pass it back into law, or something similar to it!