Governing vs. grievance: The growing Republican dilemma

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : McConnell has become the symbol of Republican capitulation to the Democrats at every turn, from the situation at the southern border to the passage of the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package Biden signed into law before the end of the year.
52% : Much of the hope invested in figures such as Gov. Ron DeSantis is that they have shown a capacity to square the circle: to understand what motivates GOP voters besides cutting taxes and confirming judges while successfully shaping policy.
48% : In a single generation, Senate Republicans went from almost unanimously confirming Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as sure a vote to uphold Roe v. Wade as nominating the president of Planned Parenthood herself, to almost unanimously confirming a woman who would help stitch together a majority on the other side.
36% : They promised to repeal and replace Obamacare, though they had yet to coalesce around a plan for the latter.
34% : The Tea Party did not know how to repeal Obamacare.
31% : In 2013, Republicans tried to defund Obamacare.
31% : The individual mandate, a particularly unpopular component of Obamacare, did not survive.
29% : One case study in Republican failure: Obamacare.
26% : The next healthcare debate could well feature Republicans defending Obamacare, though they are unlikely to call it that, against some form of single-payer. Republicans who understood the grievances of their voters proved unable to govern.
22% : It was never clear how they would do so without the White House or the Senate, or how a government shutdown for which Republicans were blamed in the polls would make Obama go along with defunding Obamacare.

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