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Elizabeth's avatar

I wasn't surprised by the Kansas result, but I am a bit shocked by how in denial some anti-abortion types seem today. It's hard to work out how much of it is performative versus how much of it is real. There have already been some vivid examples of how draconian and cruel these near-total bans are in the past several weeks. Did conservatives really believe those weren't going to resonate? Had they actually truly convinced themselves that the general public was going to be like, "Yup, totally fine with forcing a ten-year-old rape victim to give birth?"

If so, this is definitely one of the more dramatic examples of getting high on your own supply that I've seen.

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Manuel F.'s avatar

I'm not sure it will work at all, but Yang's Forward Party merger with two small center-right third parties is also a symptom of people's reluctance to work with a Trumpified GOP — lots of politically-minded people want to work with a sane and competitive center-right GOP in the future, but that means working with an insane ideologically-incoherent GOP today. Faced with that choice, it's not weird that some will just defect and take their chances, slim as they might be, on a new party without the branding issues.

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