Title : This "predicament" was completely foreseeable, so the Republicans were and are fools not to have gamed this out.
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This "predicament" was completely foreseeable, so the Republicans were and are fools not to have gamed this out.
I spent Wednesday morning ranting on this subject. I don't want to hear that this is some sort of surprise.But having made the criminalization of abortion a central axis of their political project for decades, Republicans have no obvious way out of their electoral predicament....
They've had decades to observe the arrival of the "predicament." What was the plan? They spent 50 years taking advantage of millions of voters who are committed to a clear moral principle that is not subject to compromise.
Republican attempts to moderate abortion prohibitions even slightly have, for the most part, gone nowhere.... In the weeks before the Wisconsin election on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers introduced a bill providing some narrow exceptions to the state’s abortion prohibition for cases of rape, incest and grave threats to a pregnant person’s health, but they lacked the votes in their own party to pass it....
It's been obvious all along that from a pro-life position, the unborn has a right to live, however it was conceived. In the mind of these voters, there can be no rape and incest exception.
Goldberg asserts that "conservatives fell for their own propaganda about representing 'normal' Americans." By "normal," she means people who are not "especially bothered" by the Supreme Court's revocation of the abortion right.
But, come on. Even if it's true that most Americans are content to avert their eyes from the personal problem that is an unwanted pregnancy,* there was a large, distinct bloc of voters for whom the issue was crucial. It's hardly a majority of voters or even a majority of those who voted Republican, but it's a necessary bloc, without whom Republicans can't win. Republicans were fools not to see they were running headlong into this political calamity.
The only explanation I can think of is that they trusted the Supreme Court never to give them what they've been saying they wanted. Here, you can put the blame where it's so popular to place blame these days: Trump. Or, as I'd put it, Trump and death. Who would have thought that in 1 term a President would have 3 Supreme Court seats to fill?
And then it was Trump — that cosmic oddball — and he didn't carefully choose conservative-seeming characters who'd game out a post-Roe world and keep the Republicans out of a jam. He picked names from a Federalist Society list. Surprise!
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* This is why it made sense to frame the right as a right of privacy and to see the decision-making as the domain of the person within whom the pregnancy existed.
But having made the criminalization of abortion a central axis of their political project for decades, Republicans have no obvious way out of their electoral predicament....
They've had decades to observe the arrival of the "predicament." What was the plan? They spent 50 years taking advantage of millions of voters who are committed to a clear moral principle that is not subject to compromise.
Republican attempts to moderate abortion prohibitions even slightly have, for the most part, gone nowhere.... In the weeks before the Wisconsin election on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers introduced a bill providing some narrow exceptions to the state’s abortion prohibition for cases of rape, incest and grave threats to a pregnant person’s health, but they lacked the votes in their own party to pass it....
It's been obvious all along that from a pro-life position, the unborn has a right to live, however it was conceived. In the mind of these voters, there
Goldberg asserts that "conservatives fell for their own propaganda about representing 'normal' Americans." By "normal," she means people who are not "especially bothered" by the Supreme Court's revocation of the abortion right.
But, come on. Even if it's true that most Americans are content to avert their eyes from the personal problem that is an unwanted pregnancy,* there was a large, distinct bloc of voters for whom the issue was crucial. It's hardly a majority of voters or even a majority of those who voted Republican, but it's a necessary bloc, without whom Republicans can't win. Republicans were fools not to see they were running headlong into this political calamity.
The only explanation I can think of is that they trusted the Supreme Court never to give them what they've been saying they wanted. Here, you can put the blame where it's so popular to place blame these days: Trump. Or, as I'd put it, Trump and death. Who would have thought that in 1 term a President would have 3 Supreme Court seats to fill?
And then it was Trump — that cosmic oddball — and he didn't carefully choose conservative-seeming characters who'd game out a post-Roe world and keep the Republicans out of a jam. He picked names from a Federalist Society list. Surprise!
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* This is why it made sense to frame the right as a right of privacy and to see the decision-making as the domain of the person within whom the pregnancy existed.
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