"The ruling is a dog whistle to systemic misogynists who praise zygotes one day..."
Because I can't help but split hairs from articles published on The Hill, uhh, this ruling is not a dog whistle. Sometimes I think people use words and phrases without knowing what they mean. This ruling is a dog whistle in the same way that a bombing Pearl Harbor was a dog whistle, it's not a dog whistle.
But anyway more to the point. Yeah, we'll see, but I doubt it would be enough to really prevent what should be major Republican gains this Fall. I think there's a lot of pent up frustration against Democrats as well, you're definitely seeing more division over this ruling, which is why it's such a win for conservatives.
After 30+ years of dedicating coordination and voter action for conservatives, doggedly going to the polls to vote in every single election on a single issue -- overturning Roe v. Wade -- even when they were making zero progress on that for decades, even when the political will seemed to be going in the opposite direction of their intentions, they got it. 30+ years of single issue voting in every election got them what they needed, a senate that would violate the constitution enough to refuse to sit judicial nominations by Democratic presidents, and then a Republican single term president who would get three justices in four years and dozens or hundreds at lower levels. Conservatives, many of whom weren't Republicans, played the long game with abortion even when they were losing ground, and now it's paid off for them.
I don't really have faith that advocates for the right to have an abortion, or privacy, or health care, or really anything else, will be motivated in the same way as single issue socially conservative voters have been in my life time.
I also don't know if the Kavanaugh hearings were really what swung the 2018 election as much as it was this avalanche of corruption, incompetence, and abuse from a Republican president and Republican congress. They contributed of course, but Democrats were feeling bullish well before the Kavanaugh hearings, and I don't know if those were the singular thing that swung the 2018 midterms in the way it did.
Because I can't help but split hairs from articles published on The Hill, uhh, this ruling is not a dog whistle. Sometimes I think people use words and phrases without knowing what they mean. This ruling is a dog whistle in the same way that a bombing Pearl Harbor was a dog whistle, it's not a dog whistle.
But anyway more to the point. Yeah, we'll see, but I doubt it would be enough to really prevent what should be major Republican gains this Fall. I think there's a lot of pent up frustration against Democrats as well, you're definitely seeing more division over this ruling, which is why it's such a win for conservatives.
After 30+ years of dedicating coordination and voter action for conservatives, doggedly going to the polls to vote in every single election on a single issue -- overturning Roe v. Wade -- even when they were making zero progress on that for decades, even when the political will seemed to be going in the opposite direction of their intentions, they got it. 30+ years of single issue voting in every election got them what they needed, a senate that would violate the constitution enough to refuse to sit judicial nominations by Democratic presidents, and then a Republican single term president who would get three justices in four years and dozens or hundreds at lower levels. Conservatives, many of whom weren't Republicans, played the long game with abortion even when they were losing ground, and now it's paid off for them.
I don't really have faith that advocates for the right to have an abortion, or privacy, or health care, or really anything else, will be motivated in the same way as single issue socially conservative voters have been in my life time.
I also don't know if the Kavanaugh hearings were really what swung the 2018 election as much as it was this avalanche of corruption, incompetence, and abuse from a Republican president and Republican congress. They contributed of course, but Democrats were feeling bullish well before the Kavanaugh hearings, and I don't know if those were the singular thing that swung the 2018 midterms in the way it did.
