The politics of an aftermath of the opposite SCOTUS ruling would have been brutal.
That’s the bright side. We don’t have to spend the next few weeks getting hounded by the media before capitulating and legalizing the subsidies with clean legislation with no strings attached.
That is true - no way the Republicans would have allowed it to completely disappear. I have no doubt at all that gay marriage will be legalized everywhere and since Texas has NOT supported it the locals will be rolling around in the streets laughing and prancing.