Trump, "The Art of the Deal," Got Rolled by the Anti-Abortion Card Sharks


The evidence keeps rolling in that anti-abortion will kill Donald Trump and help Democrats win a few seats in the upcoming election. Trump got into a poker game where card sharks knew how to count cards and he did not.

For decades Republican forced-birth operatives played a game with forced birth voters and mostly won. The game was for politicians to say, "Elect me for just one more term and I'll see to it Roe is overturned. One more term and there will be no more abortions." Anti abortion groups like "Priests for life" etc. told something similar, "Open your hearts for the babies as well as your pocketbooks. We are close to overturning Roe. There will be no more abortions."

Neither the politicians nor the forced-birth groups really wanted nor intended to overturn Roe. Both took in money with tiny gains like forcing young women to look at ultra sounds, etc. They both knew that if Roe was overturned the gravy train would be over. The politicians, of course, were also voting for lower taxes and regulations taking money from that cash stream as well. 

Even though this was going on right under his nose, Trump did not see this. He would win the upcoming election if he had appointed liberal Supreme Court Justices and then complained they did not overturn Roe. He could, right now, be promising to appoint anti-abortion judges while not intending to do so. This shrewd practice has been going on for 50 years, why would it not work today? Trump thought the Bushes and Reagans really wanted to end abortion. What a stupid guy.

Today, Ronna Romney McDaniel, the head of the Republican National Committee, is being replaced with a Trump nominee. This means even more money raised by the Republican Party will go to pay Trump's legal fines and fees and less to winning elections. McDaniel has made a couple of public statements warning Republicans they need to backtrack and support abortion rights or they will lose the upcoming elections. She is joining Republican Liz Chaney who is making appearances across the country with the same warning. 

The New Yorker had an article this week about Biden and his campaign team. It is obvious they and other Democrats will talk about only freedom, rights and liberty the rest of the campaign. Republicans used to talk about that, but Trump handed over the keys to Democrats.  

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