• gdog05@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    it will not go well for him

    That may well be, but nothing is really going badly for him, either. At least, not badly enough to make a difference to those of us who are increasingly facing down a hostile, broken country and a civil war because of him.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    4 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    He specifically mentioned “I haven’t agreed to any number, I’m going to see,” before adding that “we want to take an issue that was very polarising and get it settled and solved, so everybody can be happy.”

    While his former vice president Mike Pence came out in support of a 15-week abortion ban during his presidential campaign, Trump did not echo the calls.

    A former Democrat from New York, he is clearly not fluent in the language of evangelical conservatives who set aside their reservations about a thrice-married casino owner who does not go to church in hopes he would facilitate the death of Roe.

    Indeed, last year, Tina Smith, the Minnesota Democrat who is the only senator to have worked at a Planned Parenthood, told me that Republicans would put in place a national abortion ban if they took back the White House.

    Every ballot initiative to restrict abortion rights – even in bright red states like Kansas, Montana and Kentucky – has failed.

    Last year, Democratic Governor Andy Beshear won re-election in Mitch McConnell’s home state of Kentucky largely by campaigning to protect abortion rights.


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