For liberals, it’s not so clear. Since Democrats steamrolled the Affordable Care Act into law, its defenders have acted as if any opposition to the law is irrational, extremist, absurd, and, of course, racist. They gave themselves license to dismiss all inconvenient facts simply by impugning the motives of those who point them out.
Just days before HealthCare.gov crashed on takeoff, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), who has often suggested that the president’s opponents are bigots, railed on the Senate floor: “Obamacare has been the law for four years. Why don’t they get a life and talk about something else?”
“We are going to accept nothing that relates to Obamacare,” he added. “Let them find something else to be weird about.”
In recent polls, 58 percent of Americans have a negative view of the health-care law, 54 percent disapprove of Obama, and 50 percent think he isn’t honest or trustworthy. Are they all racists and weirdos?
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