What is it that makes the ACA so invincible?
The letter of the law?
Political persuasiveness?
I’d like to know what is the substance that holds the thing together.
The most important thing holding it together is the fact that it’s the major “accomplishment” of the first black President. It and he are the ultimate accomplishments of the last 100 years of the progressive movement. They control the media, academia, and huge parts of the courts. The Constitution hasn’t really mattered at all since FDR. No government program can be withstood on legal grounds. It will take a GOP sweep of Congress and the White House, then it will take guts. I have my doubts.
Nothing of substance holds it together. It’s unsuccessful and unpopular, yet the GOP ran the one candidate who couldn’t actually attack it.
“What is it that makes the ACA so invincible?”
The dirty little secret is both political parties support it for different reasons.