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The Abortion Ban Backlash Is Starting to Freak Out Republicans After the Republican Party’s disappointing performance in the 2022 midterms, fueled in large part by a backlash to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Republican National Committee recommitted itself to anti-abortion maximalism. A resolution adopted at the R.N.C.’s winter meeting in January urges Republican lawmakers “to pass the strongest pro-life legislation possible.” Addressing their party’s poor showing in November, it said that Republicans hadn’t been aggressive enough in defending anti-abortion values, urging them to “go on offense in the 2024 election cycle.” The 11-point loss of the Republican-aligned candidate in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election on Tuesday has influential conservatives rethinking this strategy. “Republicans had better get their abortion position straight, and more in line with where voters are, or they will face another disappointment in 2024,” said a Wall Street Journal editorial. [...] more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/opinion/abortion-rights-wisconsin-elections-republicans.html |
Why don't they run some pro choice candidates if they want to attract voters? I mean duh. |
| Yup, abortion was good at the polls as long as Roe v Wade was there to doom all laws republicans passed just to please the base. Now is no longer a winner but the dog reached the car and does not know what to do. I see dramatic ramping up of propaganda aginst trans kids (rapist men would be allowed in littlr girls’ bathrooms and nobody could stop them - no girls will be able to play sport again, just men wearing skirts), against public teachers snd public education in the name of parents’ rights to educate their kids, and the eternal winner, THE OPEN BORDER with the invasion that only a republican can stop (which is true in a way because the invasion, or even the trickle, disappears from the right wing news when the GOP is in power |
Lots of drama queen crying about all that stuff but the voters very clearly are voting for pro choice policies as a priority. The GOP can be really clueless. |
The GOP = high on their own supply. Look at Ginni Thomas’s private lunatic rankings over email and text. These mentally ill people are the pinnacle of the American elite. Its like an episode of the Jerry Springer Show. |
Do you have a link for Ginni’s rantings? I want to read about them but have a limited stomach for googling trash to find it. |
| The GOP isn't going anywhere. |
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The GOP has gerrymandering, unequal representation in the Senate (as well as the House), and the EC on its side.
Post-Roe is hurting them but a lot of us thought they were in serious trouble in 2012 and many other elections. They keep finding wedge issues. They keep hanging on. |
Google it. Not hard to do. |
They keep manufacturing wedge issues and idiots watch Fox news lie to them and support the manufactured BS. |
Democrats need to wake up to the fact that the largest cohort of voters (Boomers) are aging and their mental faculties are declining. They will become more susceptible to propaganda, misinformation, financial scams, and all sorts of emotional wedge issues as time goes on. Very good chance that they will vote for some truly horrific candidates who blatantly lie and hide their intent. In short, the voting populace will probably regress to the mental competency level of a young and uneducated teenager. Impulsive, confused, having difficulty parsing facts, being easily parted from their money, etc. |
Dp- I’m just loving how their deeply engrained misogyny has finally bubbled up to choke them from within. They just can’t seem to believe that reproductive rights would be an important issue to people. Like … even men! Lol |
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Pro-life is not the same as Republican, and many pro-lifers would be happy if Democrats were elected if they got to keep pro-life policies. In fact Democrats have shown in their history they will make many questionable compromises to keep getting elected.
Perhaps pro-life groups will be able to take advantage and try and get some pro-life Democrats elected. They can be like the NRA and endorse any Democrat that supports their issues. |
| The courts took this vote-driver away from the Republicans and gave it to the Democrats. It crippled their "Red Tsunami" in 2022 and makes 2024 (and beyond) very, very difficult for them. |
This is true. And the tiny number of old voters in the almost empty northern plains states will keep sending ten psycho senators to Washington. |