Please understand this: if Roe v. Wade is overturned, rich white Republican women and their daughters will continue to get abortions as before. Their focus is on controlling the bodies of non-white and poor women—as it’s always been. When Roe is lost, it’ll only be lost for some.
The percent of the GOP base so devoutly “pro-life” that—in keeping with certain religious dogma—it opposes both the death penalty and all abortions is vanishingly small.
For most Republicans, the goal on abortion is divide-and-conquer rhetoric and cultural “command and control.”
Republicans believe that women who, post-Roe, bring unwanted pregnancies to term—and they’re certain that such women will largely be Democrats—are more likely to stay in poverty and not vote.
Abortion is a liberty, equality, and economic freedom question, and the GOP *knows* it.
Trump is waging a war on democracy. The right is waging a war on women. The alt-right is waging a war on truth. The GOP is waging a war on voting. Far-right antivaxxers are waging a war on science. Everything that makes America America is under threat.
WHEN WILL AMERICA WAKE UP?
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I often disagree with Bill, and disagree with some of this. I think he oscillates between pretending the far left and the Democratic Party are synonymous and acknowledging they're not. The Democratic Party is diverse; it's the *GOP* that made its fringe the whole of its project.
(PS) What idiot conservatives like Scott Adams are missing in trumpeting this video is that Maher *is* a classical liberal, and *is* saying that the Democratic Party's *policies* are where most of the country is—including, yes, the white Heartland.
The issue is, paradoxically...
(PS2) ...that folks like Maher conflating the Democratic Party and its left-most fringe is *precisely* the problem the party faces. Why? Because a party can't control all its fringes—unless it's an authoritarian party like the GOP—but it *can* ask people to focus on its policies.
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If this insurrectionist leader thinks this will stop me from reporting on her ongoing seditious attempts to destroy American democracy, she is wrong.
(PS) Note that the tweet by this person that I attacked in the strongest possible terms—pre-block—was one in which she urged her far-right insurrectionist followers to “be like Kyle,” i.e. armed vigilantes.
(PS2) But I'm sure she was also unnerved by my revelation that members of Trump's January 5 Trump International Hotel war room are political donors of hers.
She is an Oath Keeper, a sponsor of domestic terrorist Ali Alexander, and a clear and present danger to the United States.
(1 of 2) I hope everyone is screenshotting the statements being made today by top Republicans and far-rght demagogues. It won't be long before someone in the antifa movement brings an AR-15 to a Proud Boys or Oath Keeper event and starts shooting if someone throws a plastic bag.
(2 of 2) This is precisely why—unlike Republican leaders and unlike far-right demagogues—those of us who believe in peace and the rule of law are urging all parties to stay away from protests in which they are not participating, and to by no means go to such protests while armed.
PS/ The reason to screenshot today's comments by Republican leaders and far-right demagogues is that this sort of vigilante violence—which is wholly unacceptable—will undoubtedly come from both ends of the political spectrum. Anyone not condemning it categorically isn't a leader.