Republicans have a big problem when it comes to the issue of student loans, and almost no one is talking about it. Anxiety about student loans is rising, and unless they get ahead of public opinion, President Trump and GOP candidates for Congress will quickly find themselves playing catch-up to the likes of Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and other irresponsible socialist demagogues.

In an August 2018 poll conducted by Celinda Lake’s polling firm, Lake Research Partners, two-thirds of registered voters said that the current level of student loan debt is a “crisis.” While 71 percent of Democrats predictably held this view, it was shared by two-thirds of independents and even 57 percent of Republicans.