political strategy

This came up because I just read something about the GOP accusing Democrats of radical proposals on health care. Obviously it's thought single-payer UHC is a radical concept, but IMO it's really not - per the norms of most (all?) other developed nations. And famously, the ACA was actually a...

Is it a smart (or good) strategy for the controlling party to reform programs/institutions in ways they would traditionally campaign against? I'm thinking, for example, when Clinton reformed welfare programs in the mid-90s. Though making cuts to welfare may have been traditionally something...