You're exactly right.
The blowback is going to be huge; I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't cost us a bunch of judges.
And Social Security
And Income Tax reform. (Fair Tax!)
Maybe the Senate.
You can already see the propaganda campaign starting though the Pope's death is slowing it.
It is a real tragedy but also another reminder that the biggest threat to a victorious party is over reaching which provokes the mass of the public to turn on it.
"What the Gods would destroy they first make mad."