Poll: People approve of Supreme Court’s call on student loan forgiveness

Last month, the Supreme Court tossed out Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness scheme on a 6-3 vote. (That didn’t stop him from trying again almost immediately, of course.) Liberals and the legacy media were once again immediately up in arms, crying about the unfairness of it all and how cruel the conservative court is, and how the court needs to be packed or regulated in some fashion. And they were crying out on behalf of the people who were surely just as angry and feeling betrayed. But how did people actually feel about it? Rasmussen Reports decided to find out so they put the question to the public. As it turns out, a very significant majority of respondents felt that the court got it right and Biden was the one who was wrong. Who could have guessed?

Most voters approve of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that declared President Joe Biden’s student loan debt cancellation unconstitutional.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 63% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of the court’s decision that struck down Biden’s program to cancel billions of dollars in student loan debt, including 49% who Strongly Approve. Thirty-one percent (31%) disapprove of the Supreme Court student loan ruling, including 20% who Strongly Disapprove.

That margin isn’t even close. We live in a very divided country at the moment on a number of issues, but not on this one. A 63/31 break is more than two to one. And among those who approve of the court’s decision only one point short of half approve strongly. Those who strongly disapprove numbered only one in five.

People didn’t seem to feel very strongly that this would be a major driving factor in the 2024 elections, and that’s probably accurate. Particularly with the court decision behind us (for now) there are plenty of bigger fish to fry. But this is just yet another case of the Biden administration and the hard progressive left totally failing to read the room. You constantly hear them talking about how important this is for everyone and what a betrayal it’s been.

And that’s probably how most people sitting around the faculty lounge at Harvard feel to be sure. But not out there on Main Street. The vast majority of Americans don’t have student loan debt, either because they didn’t go to college or they already paid theirs off. And nobody in those categories wants to see their tax dollars being flushed into the pockets of those who knowingly took on those loans and now have their hands out. Those debtors are also the people with college degrees who should be the most able to repay them.

Those same groups also probably have (or used to have) other types of loans that will not be forgiven. They’re expected to pay those loans back just as they agreed to do when they took them out. You can hear the voices of those people on the wind saying, ‘Where’s my bailout?’ What kind of political analysts couldn’t suss this out from the beginning? This was never going to be popular among working-class Americans and they should have seen this coming. If anything, the popularity and approval of the Supreme Court probably ticked back up a bit after this decision. But the Democrats continue to drive themselves into the ditch on a range of topics that are nowhere near as popular as they seem to believe. And in some cases, such as the genital mutilation of children, they aren’t just “unpopular.” Most people are horrified.