Never let them tell you that nothing ever changes in politics.
In 1996, just 27 percent of American adults believed that the law should recognize same-sex marriages.
A decade later, at about the time the U.S. Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage legal in all the land, support was at 46 percent, with the opposition still holding on to a solid majority.
Last year, it was 69 percent in favor, 29 percent opposed — an almost perfect reversal of where the issue stood 28 years before.
There was no precipitating event of the kind that has driven other massive swings in popular opinion, in the way that 9/11 changed opinions on the threat of terrorism or how the financial panic of 2008 altered the view of the banking system.
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