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Like I said, good luck with that, the framing is freaking simple, you don't need that much money, so we are going to take some of it, and give it to someone else....
If you think that is gonna resonate with anyone in the middle, good luck, hope you want another 4 more years of Trump.
It's worse than that. Not only the tax issue, but threats of bringing down the private health insurance sector (160 million Americans use it, 600,000 directly work for health insurance companies - think of 4 people in each household and you get 2.4 million people who depend on those jobs), not to forget that 16 million people work for the healthcare sector at large, and they'll be afraid of being uprooted and downsized in the midst of a chaos. Sure, maybe it's meant to be replaced by something better... but people still remember the "you can keep your doctor" debacle and they won't necessarily believe the Dem candidate trying to reassure them that their healthcare will be just fine. So, the proposal with M4A is to create the ultimate mega governmental bureaucracy to handle healthcare for all Americans... but people look at the Veterans Affairs Administration and see that their bloated system provides really ****ty healthcare to veterans, a much smaller chunk of the population, so how will they feel confident that a much larger and much more complex operation will get to run smoothly?
People fear abrupt change, especially the older Americans who depend on healthcare, who are, by the way, the most reliable voting segment, the people who actually do show up to vote.
Then, there is the issue of extending free ELECTIVE health care to illegal aliens. Only the most progressive and far left people are for this. This will feel offensive to the VAST majority of Americans, right, center, and a good chunk of the left.
Add to this, blunders like proposing the felons like the Boston Marathon bomber should vote, doing away with deportations all together, and other unpopular ideas: the Dems are doing their VERY BEST to alienate the center (and even some people on the left), and remember, in our polarized political climat, it's the center that decides elections.
Trump is the incumbent. His economy is seen as good. Dislodging an incumbent who presides over a good economy is very hard. People assume that Trump will do worse than in 2016. He actually may do better. And they assume the Dems will do better than in 2016. They actually may do worse.
All the leftists' talk that "it's in the bag" smells of lessons not learned from 2016.