"Twice divorced serial philanderer Donald Trump doesn’t have social conservatism.
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"Twice divorced serial philanderer Donald Trump doesn’t have social conservatism. He has a politically expedient con. Trump has convinced Christian nationalists he was anti-choice in public while attempting to limit the political damage of anti-choice policies behind the scenes. And that con is running headlong into the consequences of the actions he took to sustain the con."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #KamalaHarris #abortion #ReproductiveRights
/1There Are No Backsies on Dobbs - emptywheel
Horserace journalists have been loathe to hold Trump accountable for the things he did as President. But Kamala Harris has finally made Trump own something, his role in stripping women of their bodily autonomy. In response, Trump has started to panic.
emptywheel (www.emptywheel.net)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by [email protected]
"Trump had wanted to run on other policies, immigration and Trump’s distorted claims about the economy, but now he’s having to answer for his anti-choice policies….
No matter how many contradictory statements Trump makes about what a second Trump term would do, there’s no escaping what his first term did do. There are no backsies on Dobbs. There are no backsies on Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett."
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@wdlindsy It's amazing to me that the 'head in the sand' approach the republicans took regarding Dobbs, and now they seem caught off guard by Women's health care being a prominent issue. It's so weird.
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Peter Butlerreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Wheeler mentions that Anya Cook will be part of the campaign’s first "reproductive freedoms” event in Palm Beach
I had not read about Cook before, though I know stories like this are happening all over anti-abortion states
It’s a powerful story
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/10/pprom-florida-abortion-ban/
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Arqtecreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
There are 2 Political parties
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Arqtec last edited by
@Arqtec Very well-stated.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Peter Butler last edited by
@peterbutler Thank you very much for these links. I hadn't heard of Anya Cook, and am grateful to learn more. Both links opened for me, and for that, I'm also very grateful.
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@timo21 I think they know they're in a quandary and just really don't know how to get out of it. If they step back in the slightest way from the position the Christian right wants them to take, they're highly pressured by that contingent to make a reversal. But they also know that this position is political suicide. Having sold their soul to the evangelical (and right-wing Catholic) base, they have to dance to the tune of that base — while they want to win elections. So they lie as strategy….
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to samiamsam last edited by
@samiamsam @timo21 Loves me some Molly Ivins. How I miss her!