But if this was all going to play in the Democrats favor why are they panicking and reacting the way they are to the idea of simply holding a debate and a vote?
Remember HillaryCare? It was supported by the majority of the public until the details got out to them. In fact, I remember it went from majority of support to being so bad that the Democrats lost the House for the first time in 40 years. The same thing happened when the public voted on universal healthcare in Colorado in 2016. This is an opportunity to get this crap sandwich in the minds of the public.
This wasn’t actually supposed to be voted on. It was just supposed to be entertainment for the base
Actually, it was supposed to be the new insane other end of the negotiation spectrum, and "reasonable" Communism was supposed to fall somewhere between the NGD and the Constitution.
We may laugh, but when the chuckles are over, insanity like the NGD just makes the ordinary, garden variety, everyday Communism the Democrats spew seem less insane than it is. That reduces the level of visceral "HELL NO!" reaction people have to their ordinary nonsense, and serves a useful purpose for their regularly scheduled program of 'fundamental transformation',
and another little step away from our Constitutional Republic doesn't seem so far compared to that giant leap.
Desensitization.
Once you've seen the unthinkable, the merely outrageous doesn't seem so bad.
The shock value of everything in between is gone.
There was a time when people would take great offense at government telling them what to do or not do with their land, what they had to do or couldn't do with their car engine, what they could say, how they couldn't modify their motorcycle, and a host of other little liberties we have lost.