Republican Wedgery 0
PoliticalProf attempts to make sense of the Republican fixation on the Affordable Care Act and concludes that it’s not about the issue; it’s about the wedge.
A small nugget:
Pro-life abortion politics is one such issue. As a practical matter, abortion, as an issue, is fraught with an array of emotions, perceptions of rights, and beliefs about what is right and what is wrong. It is possible, and indeed quite common, for individual voters to hold an array of what might be termed “liberal” political positions — pro-labor, pro-environment, in favor of increasing taxes on the better off — while holding a “pro-life” position on abortion at the same time. No voter is perfectly ideologically consistent.
Read the rest.
It makes more sense than any other attempt I’ve seen to explain the Republicans’ willingness to shoot the economy to get their way.
