Is This the Uniparty?
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.
Sounds great. It’s not that Trump is Reagan in 1984. It’s Kamala and Tim are as scary as Chavez, with a touch of Mao, Castro, Cristina and any other dictator or committed socialist.
We live in a "federal" country. The federal government has enumerated rights and any other rights go to the states for "processing." Pauline Maier's "Ratification," on the constitution, highlights how important the remainder clause was in getting our constitution passed by the 13 colonies. It never would have passed without the remainder clause being front and center when the votes were cast. Abortion is not an enumerated right. It is a state right. Any federal legislation on abortion is counter to what the founding fathers wanted. I am 100% pro-life, I spent the first 8 years of my life in foster care. I was not aborted. Awesome. We live by our rules, our constitution, and we should disavow ANY politician who wants to bring abortion back to the federal level. This is called fighting with fire when you go directly against the constitution that is our only protection against the rabble. Every state should do as they see fit and people in those states MUST fight for their STATE rights. Trump wants to win - BAD - whatever you think of him - he is 1,000% better than the opposition on the question of abortion, on dealing with people of faith, and on helping people who just want to be left alone without the government going broke. We should be spending our time trying to convince Trump to control spending, the biggest weakness in his strong ecomomic record. Spending time trying to federalize abortion rights is a losing strategy.