Republicans Have Been Blindsided


Republican leaders in private must be having conversations like this. One guy says, "The question of the day is, what the hell do we do about Trump?"  Another guy says, "No, the question of the day is what the hell do we do about abortion?" Republicans cannot return to their winning ways without correcting these two problems. They are different, however.

In a few years, Trump will be gone from the political scene without the Party needing to remove him. He will lose and other politicians will move up. The Trump problem will solve itself. 

The losses in elections caused by anti-abortion, however, will not solve itself. As long as it sits there making voters mad elections will continue to be lost. The Party has to solve the problem. Anti-abortion operatives have joined the Party and moved up in its ranks. These operatives are now so influential 167 Washington Republicans sponsored a bill called the "Life at Conception Act." Lately, some speaking for the Party have been saying it does not really want to ban all abortion. What? If destroying one fertilized egg is destroying a human being why is that not "ban all abortion?" 

Ann Coulter, the pugilistic columnist and commentator, repeated often a few years back that voters hate "feminists" and reversing Roe will have no bad political consequences for Republicans. She now sees she was entirely wrong. Coulter should have heard what I have heard women say often, "I am not a feminist, but I believe women should be able to get abortions."

Republican leaders of many stripes seem to have been blind-sided by the election losses since the overturn of Roe. It's hard to understand how they missed it. The numbers have always been there. Abortion rights polls majority. Half the population is female. A large portion of males need the income of wives and girlfriends. Duh? 

The current Republican leaders only know how to play the game one way: That is to tell antiabortion zealots they want to stop all abortions but tell others in their states abortions should be available. To play the game in some other way will require a new set of politicians. Only when there has been a lot of turnover will we see how the Party will move forward from its serious miscalculation.  

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