Yes, I believe that liberalism was rejected by the vote.
If we consider the recently re-discovered (aka previously buried by the Biased Lame Stream Media) public statements by Jonathan Gruber:
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”
Gruber: Stupidity of Americans Would Have Killed Obamacare | The Daily Caller
Mark Thiessen has, what appears to be, an accurate read of this.
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” Gruber said in the video.
“If it takes lying to us to get what they want done, they’re willing to do it,” Thiessen said.
Thiessen described Gruber as so condescending that “he actually wrote a comic book to explain ObamaCare because of course we’re not smart enough to read chapter books.” Thiessen noted that the book describes the individual mandate as “the spinach we have to eat in order to get the dessert that is fairly priced health insurance. “
Megyn Kelly said that she invited Gruber back on the show to defend himself tonight, but he said he wasn’t interested.
“You know what? We’re no longer interested in you, Mr. Gruber, and 28 Democrats who voted for that health care law just got fired by the American people because eventually they realized they had been lied to […] one by one, the misrepresentations have come out and the American people have had their say."
Megyn Kelly, Marc Thiessen Slam Video of ObamaCare Architect Gruber Admitting 'Lack of Transparency' | Fox News Insider
No one likes being lied to. No one.
I submit that the electorate has come to the same conclusions as Thiessen, that this president and this administration basically thinks the electorate as 'too stupid to know the difference', 'too stupid to know when they are being lied to', and aren't worthy of anything more than being lied to, and it is this attitude and these actions which have been resoundingly rejected at the polls.
Interestingly enough, this is very much the same attitude that you get every time someone has the temerity to question and challenge a policy proposed by a liberal.
The Obama administration, as long as it remains in office, will be a continuing reminder of this attitude of theirs, and this attitude will continue to be associated with the Democratic party and Democratic candidates, up until the end of the Obama administration.
So what do that do for the Democratic party's prospect for the 2016 elections, with the continuous reminder still in office until after the elections complete?
My advice to the Democrats / progressives / liberals, is you may have good ideas worthy of consideration, but you're not going to get much support from the electorate until you lose the attitude.
No one likes to be talked to in a condescending manner. No one.
No one likes being lied to. No one.
No one likes to be called stupid. No one.
No one likes being belittled. No one.