so i don’t know if you’ve checked in on the news at any point in the last 8 months — literally any point there’s some new bullshit every day — but the trump admin is not exactly mess-averse
Same-sex marriage enjoys much wider support among the public. It was a movement that Republicans occasionally played significant parts in— New York in 2011 and Obergefell being examples. There’s also federal statutory protections on the books. And it would be a very messy right to dismantle.