[Deckard]

Cacophony - good post.

Question: how feasible is it that this could all be repealed at some point? I ask because support for it seems to have split the country 50/50 down the usual cultural fault line, and opposition to this particular issue seems unusually fierce.

With the balance of power inevitably seeping away from Dems, won't the Republicans make it their absolute priority to kill/reverse it, and won't that receive a good deal of support from a large and growing chunk of the country still muttering 'socialism' and 'tax dollars' in the same sentence?

Does optimism really hang on the belief that in 6-18 months, enough opponents or fence-sitters will have been converted into thinking "how could I have ever done without it?"