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  • I hadn’t really thought about how this move by Obama may have unwittingly pushed the Overton window way to the right…

    Republicans were in the throes of racist rage during Obama’s tenure, and they hated everything he proposed and defined themselves by opposing everything he wanted to do.

    Obama, being clever, takes the GOP’s own health care plan, and turns around and sells it to them.

    If it were president Mitt Romney that proposed it, it would have gotten support. Hell, even if it were a Democratic white dude, it would have been doable.

    But because it came from Obama, they had to define themselves by their opposition to their own plan. Pushing them (permanently, it seems) further right on the topic of health care.