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I hear you, but their messaging was going to be their messaging, and it was going to be effective and adopted by their base. No one "let it be called Obamacare", that was strictly Republican, and very deliberate. There was never a point when the GOP was gonna just allow a massive popular win by the other side, they were always gonna ratfuck it every way possible, do everything they could to make it unpopular.
Associating it with scary brown guy was pretty much inevitable, I can't put even a piece of the blame on the folks who fought for that legislation to be passed.