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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1722092355770016036[/twitter][/quote]

What am I missing?  Didn’t the GOP want abortion to be decided by states?  Isn’t an election the way to make that decision in a democracy??[/quote]

What's happening here is the next phase of GOP talking points to make excuses for their clearly undemocratic intentions and actions. The GOP has understood since at least Nixon's administration that they were on a path to losing majorities and political influence. As such, they have championed the Electoral College (we almost got rid of it in 1970), ruthlessly wielded Senate power when they had it, packed the courts, and politically gerrymandered states to ensure Republican rule.

In order to continue to justify all of the above they are now turning to using political science terms to further obscure what they are doing. Look for the buzzwords pure democracy and representative democracy to be thrown around a lot. A "pure democracy" (where every matter is put up to majority vote) doesn't exist, but it's a great way to deflect the truth that the majority of voters don't agree with your position on abortion. You argue process - that a referendum isn't legitimate in a representative democracy - and then you can thwart the will of the voters that you've chosen (because the voters can't actually choose their own representatives b/c of political gerrymander) all that you like under the guise that the people elected are representative of the will of the people.

This is also a large part of the independent state legislature theory.[/quote]

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