No, I am not happy with Biden lumping pro-life people with MAGA. Unfortunately, a lot of pro-lifers have done this themselves. Still, it frustrates me when Ds can’t distinguish between issues Americans have been divided on for a long time vs the GOP’s dangerous new direction.
The question isn’t whether there is a large overlap between pro-lifers and pro-Trumpers - there clearly is. The question is whether holding this position is one of the things that makes pro-Trumpers a “threat to the Republic”.
Biden has come very close to implying it is, and I think that includes a lot of people - like Rusty Bowers, for example - who have no truck with what happened on 1/6, and actually helped prevent it from succeeding.
Americans are going to disagree fiercely about many issues for years to come. It is important to distinguish between this and the rising flirtation with authoritarian populism.
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