re: #109 Daniel Ballard

And I pointed out that at least two Presidents have enjoyed exactly what you denied exists.

I have no clue what this thing is, though, or what it led to.

That’s my answer-mandates with the advantage they carry is a real phenomenon. Obdi, you are just incorrect, mandates do exist. Not commonly but certainly. Calling them a truism changes nothing about them. The further complexities of when they do not happen to occur does not take away the history of popular mandates helping a president advance his agenda.

So why, despite there being a popular mandate to raise taxes on the wealthy, has that not happened?

Why do I think huge popular support can become political action? Because I read of it as a fact in the history articles about Roosevelt and saw it with my own eyes when Reagan won so big.

So why, despite there being a popular mandate to raise taxes on the wealthy, has that not happened?