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Good question. There’s certainly some consensus on the status quo.

But, then we have things like health care, abortion, and firearm regulation. Americans largely want better/cheaper access to the first two and more of the third. Yet, we can’t get any of them.




You have to be careful with these reads on sentiment, because they're based on public opinion polling, which is incredibly imprecise. You can get majority support in a policy opinion poll for almost anything, but when we have actual tests of those policies at the ballot box, support crumbles --- the best example for that is single-payer health care.

I happen to agree with you about abortion, and thing the opposition party is and will continue to be punished for passing unpopular restrictions on reproductive health care. But one thing I don't think anybody can reasonably say is that GOP voters were bamboozled into voting for curtailment of reproductive rights; abortion and public schools are the two fundamental defining differences between the parties!




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