Obamacare was more popular when it first came out than the Trump Tax Cuts today. A significant reason Obamacare met opposition was that liberal groups felt it had not gone far enough in achieving affordable universal health care. Those liberals felt deflated that the Obama Program overall had not gone far enough and stayed home during the midterms in 2010 and 2014. If voter participation in 2017 is an indicator of what is to come, the Trump tax cuts, despite the sugar rush effect that will occur, will, along with the other actions and tweets coming from this administration, propel enough progressives and Democrats to the polls in the 2018 midterms to make the 2010 and 2014 look insignificant. Democrats and Progressives, after failing to maintain the enthusiasm of the 2010, 2014 and 2016 (in the Rust Belt) elections, need to sustain the momentum they have now for 2018, 2020, and beyond. They can never become complacent again.
https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-12-22/why-the-wildly-unpopular-tax-bill-passed?src=usn_fb
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/feb/08/bill-oreilly/majority-people-polls-do-not-support-obamacare/
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