Wait, Weren’t Most People Opposed To Affirmative Action?

What’s the narrative here?

I am all for chasing trauma and making myself the victim — it’s one of my rare gifts — so I love it when SCOTUS drops some turd bomb on America in the middle of a weekday and everyone has to run and try to hot take it. Obviously Dobbs, which ended Roe, was a big one. Yesterday felt like a big one. Affirmative action is done! But wait. I thought I’ve read and seen for years that most people didn’t like affirmative action of late. Hmmm. Is that right?

The End of Affirmative Action

Their ruling appears to align with public opinion. Most Americans oppose the consideration of race or ethnicity in college admissions, surveys have found. Even in liberal California, the public has voted twice to prohibit affirmative action. (Americans’ opinions can shift somewhat depending on how the survey question is framed.)

OK. Yea. So on Dobbs, they legislated from the bench — and you saw Democrats get some nice bounce on that in 2022, which could extend to 2024, even if Biden is a fossil. But on this affirmative action decision, the 6–3 ruling was in step with how most Americans seem to think. Got it.

So what all is happening here? It looks like a few tiers:

• The court overall: It obviously leans conservative, and some might argue very conservative, so every ruling that kinda underscores and reinforces that — even if said ruling is in step with American thinking — creates a sense of moral chaos and panic.
• Everyone has a platform: … which invariably means everyone has a take, which is a lot to sort through.
• Ideology: Some people, especially the far left, will recoil at virtually anything a court with three Trump-appointed justices does.
• Race: Race is one of the biggest issues in…