Americans certainly aren’t happy with the student loan status quo.

It’s hard to blame them, seeing as the average college graduate now leaves campus $30,000 in debt. But this discontent does mean that if Republicans fail to respond and offer up meaningful solutions, voters will inevitably drift further toward the outstretched arms of “free college” supporters and student loan bailout proponents such as socialists Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders.