Name the policy issues we're wrong about? The public does care when it comes time to vote and those kind of issues are pointed out in debates.
climate change
Opposition to gay marriage
The War in Iraq
War on terror
The deregulation of investment banks which led to the financial crash of 2007-2009.
They were wrong about the stimulus in 2009. Republicans said the stimulus wouldn’t help the economy but it did and it helped end the recession and they said it would cause run away inflation which it didn’t.
Republicans were so wrong about the stimulus in 2009 in fact that when trump was President republicans passed two huge gigantic stimulus bills.
The Affordable care Act. They said it would not lower the uninsured rate yet it did. Lower health insurance costs, and They said it would never be popular with Americans yet it is.
they were wrong about both the GWBush and Trump tax cuts causing higher economic growth.
They were wrong about coronavirus not being a big deal nothing more than the flu.