Progressives mislead themselves about popularity of their plans
One of the enduring beliefs of progressive voters and officials is that public opinion invariably favors their side. The corollary is that if their plans fail to pass, unreasonable obstruction must be to blame.in a recent appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” talking about the Democrats’ bill to increase social spending and combat climate change, which has“What is in the reconciliation bill ... is enormously popular,” the Vermont independent said. “It’s what 70%, 80% of the American people ...
Advocacy groups routinely produce polls with wording only slightly less subtle than that. Often, they’re testing language for potential campaigns to see what phrases best connect with the public. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that; the danger comes only when people, including elected officials, come to believe their own propaganda.
Despite a lot of Republican efforts to profit from Americans’ anxieties about schooling during the pandemic, the survey found that Democrats held a small edge over the GOP on which party they more often agreed with on education.in both parties, asked a slightly different list of issues and pushed those who initially said they didn’t favor either party to say which side they leaned toward.
Democrats have a strong advantage, roughly 20 points, as the party likely to do a better job on climate change, racism and healthcare. They also have a smaller, but still significant, single-digit margin on the pandemic, education and bringing the country together, Fox found. Republicans have a strong advantage on national security, the border, immigration, crime, the economy, the federal budget deficit and taxes.
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