Donald Trump says his administration will be “great for women and their reproductive rights.”
JD Vance says Donald Trump will veto a national abortion ban, including the Lindsey Graham proposal for just a late-term abortion ban when a baby in utero can feel pain.
Is this the uni-party we were warned of?
I understand playing to the center to win and the federalism argument Vance makes. I also get that Roe v. Wade is no more thanks to Trump appointed, Senate confirmed Supreme Court Justices.
But a whole lot of evangelicals were willing to side with Trump because they thought he’d have their backs and this betrays them. A late term abortion ban when a baby in-utero can feel pain actually polls well with women.
The reality is Trump is winging it. This entire exercise on re-messaging pro-life politics is Trump flying by the seat of his pants seeing what works without people behind him guiding the message.
In the process, he risks undermining himself with some pretty loyal voters. Regardless of your views on abortion, if you can’t see that winging it like this seventy days before the election is a bad idea, you might be in for a surprise on Election Day.
This is not the politics of addition, but the politics of replacement and the voters most likely to come to Trump with this message are already at Moloch’s altar throwing coins in Kamala Harris’s coffers. The Great Replacement Theory is working inside the GOP with faith voters.
Meanwhile, on social media, a whole lot of people are revealing themselves as more interested in winning than advancing principles. The justifications to defend Trump as “great for women and their reproductive rights” is actually laugh out loud funny. “What he really meant was…”. LOL.
What is happening here, for people of faith, is the continual stripping away of their justifications for participating in politics from a faith perspective. You can now just say you’re for the right, not for the left, without having to bring faith into it.
As this keeps going, eventually the faithful will either tap out of the faith or tap out of politics. We’re watching this happen in real time.
The upside for Trump is that a lot of evangelical voters are really Republican voters who talk Jesus without walking with him. They want Jesus the weapon, not Jesus the Savior. Those, undoubtedly, outnumber those who walk the walk. So this won’t matter too much now. It will, however, add up over time as the parties merge on social issues all while pretending they are not.
Trump, after all, is vehemently opposed to transgenderism. Just ask Caitlyn Jenner.
And if that’s not enough, consider the priapism of the online right all excited that the scion of a Democratic family who is deeply, socially progressive, for abortion rights, for assisted suicide, for gun control, for expanded government mandates, for fossil fuel bans, and for Joe Biden’s student loan bailout has endorsed Trump. But Kennedy hates vaccines so yay! But he opposes a physical border wall too. But did I mention he opposes vaccines?
Y’all, Trump needs to stop feeling his way through stuff doing free form focus grouping on the campaign. Frankly, the message needs to be the economy and the border. And it is really easy, when someone asks you an abortion question, to say, “My position is clear it is a state issue. Kamala Harris has raised prices and opened the border.” And just repeat that until they move on to the next question.
I don't see how conservatives could be very surprised by Trump's new position on abortion. He's clearly been very transactional in his approach to politics. Help him, and he'll help you.
Write his campaign a big check, for example, and your industry has his support. Make him President and he'll give you judges who will overturn Roe. Reelect him now and (fill in the blank). I mean, did you really not know whom you were dealing with?
For those who think Trump is God's chosen instrument in working His will, you might consider the possibility that sometimes, doing God's will and the cynical pursuit of one's own self interest may just happen to coincide. You might also consider the further possibility that character matters.
And if it does to God, why not to you?
I am pissed about the abortion issue.
I know enough Christian conservatives that are completely gaslit into what I consider to be a terrible, authoritarian and disgusting position that would fore a raped young girl to carry the fetus to full term and delivery. I get their moral position and support their right to hold it... but for them and their family, not everyone else. Not to force their extremist view on others. It is no different than the authoritarian left attempting to force their absurd and disgusting gender ideology on everyone else. It is anti libertarian and at odds with all the principles of true conservatism and Republicanism.
And most importantly, it is causing the Republicans to lose elections and then the moral extremists holding these views end up with legal abortion up to birth and beyond because Democrats keep winning.
Just drop it. Abortion isn't a winning topic. The nation does not support the life at conception authoritarian view. We should demand that everyone have the freedom to hold their own views about abortion, but not to be able to shove them down everyone else's throats. The states can figure it out... what is right for the states.
Frankly with the state of humanity in this country... the human crisis of drugs and homelessness... if you really are a good moral Christian, you would work on that... the sea of unwanted children that are going to grow into self-destructive adults... essentially aborting themselves eventually. Show progress fixing that with your Church congregations and Christian values, and then get back to us on the abortion issue.