"Boring Old Liberalism Just Keeps Muddling Through to Prevail Once Again"

"But old-fashioned half-a-loaf liberalism has proven tough to replace. It's not just that revolutionary change is difficult to achieve in the American political system, though it is. There are also plenty of important constituencies invested in conventional liberal policy-making—classes of credentialed work-within-the-system subject matter experts, institutionalized interest groups that prize partial victories over none at all, and a large number of regular voters who hold moderately left-of-center views on domestic affairs and are wary of socialism and laissez-faire-ism alike."

David A. Hopkins at Honest Graft responds to the recent decision by the Supreme Court to protect the Affordable Care Act.