I read the Washington Post most days since I got a give-away subscription at the beginning of the year.
The far-right populist stuff I can sort of understand, because - sadly - Republicans have found they can find wealthy people with vested interests to fund them and useful idiots to vote them in.
But the abortion ban is not popular. 60% are 'pro-choice'. Republicans are more 'pro-life' but a very substantial minority are pro-choice. Whilst it will appeal to many of the GOP base in the bible belt, where the Republicans are in the main invincible anyway, it will surley hurt them elsewhere. The "pro-life" and pro-choice camps very much map onto partisan voting tendency.
I hate the way that the argument is construed as two equivalent positions, alternate sides of a coin. One lot thinks that women should have a choice. The others want to make everyone follow their own supposed beliefs which makes them no better than the Taliban.
The Texas attorney general has said he is prepared to look at the ideas of making seeking/obtaining out-of-state abortion illegal, with penalties for anyone assisting, and rolling back gay rights legislation (including same sex marriage and suggesting he would be prepared to defend laws prohibiting intimate same sex relationships).
I would not have thought this possible pre-Trump, even though I am aware of the fondness for "religious" doctrine in the bible belt.
Thank god I'm an atheist.
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