Thread by @mcjulie

There’s a difference between “I PRIMARILY blame the Democrats” and “I ALSO blame the Democrats”

https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1466475939584483328

One thing we rarely talk about, it seems, is that the traditional Christian church holds a lot of sway over both parties. Republicans are basically a branch of the evangelical church these days, but Democrats aren’t immune.

I think a kind of hands-off “Roe is settled law, don’t worry about it” was part of how religious Democrats navigated the conflicting demands of church vs. reproductive rights.

They thought they could stay out of the fight.
I blame Democrats for that.
I also blame those on the left who HATE Democrats supposedly but took essentially a more loud & misogynistic version of the same stance.

That’s what I mean when I say the misogyny runs deep in this country, there’s apparently no voting coalition that really prioritizes reproductive rights.

And in 2016 when McConnell stole a SCOTUS seat — well, MOSTLY McConnell is to blame, but also, it was OBVIOUS where this was going, and what did Democrats do about it? Just carried on and hoped it would all work out somehow?

It seemed to me like nobody with any significant power or platform — not even Obama — really treated McConnell’s refusal to seat a judge as the act of treason it was. Nobody signaled that it was a huge crisis and so it wasn’t treated like one.

I mean, they’ve really set it up good if what you want is a neo-confederacy, because at the same time human rights are being eroded, the SCOTUS has rendered itself illegitimate.

There’s a terrible feedback loop, where increased fascism decreases people’s faith in a democratic system, which increases the fascism, etc. & the whole thing falls apart.