Posted on 09/06/2024 10:10:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald Trump is stuck.
He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. His instinct is to promise the moon, and he’ll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room. He also knows, however, that he has no choice but to dance with the date that brought him. He can’t abandon the groups, interested parties and constituencies that put him in the White House to execute their agenda — to exercise their will.
The problem comes when most voters don’t want what your partners hope to do with the power they helped you get.
Such is the case for abortion.
Trump represents the movement to outlaw abortion, restrict contraception and severely limit the scope of reproductive health care. Under rules issued by his administration, employers who had a religious or moral objection could refuse to cover birth control for their employees. He appointed hard-line anti-abortion activists to help lead the Department of Health and Human Services and, of course, nominated the justices who voted — with three other Republican members of the Supreme Court — to overturn Roe v. Wade and end the constitutional right to an abortion.
All of this, especially the end of Roe, is deeply unpopular, and Trump knows it. This is why he has tried the two-step of celebrating his appointments to the court but distancing himself from the consequences, both practical and political, of his anti-abortion accomplishments. Even the most gifted rhetoricians would struggle to sell this to the public. That, obviously, is not Trump. Unsurprisingly, he has floundered.
When asked about Roe during his debate with President Biden, Trump said, falsely, that “everybody wanted to get it back to the states.” He said that...”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
All I read was Donald Trump is Stuck. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah....
Ha ha ha! Now that’s funny.
Walls closing in, tick tock... /s
Wow...what a bunch of drivel.
NYT SUCKS
They always spread pure manure.
BS
Propaganda
You say . . Trump represents the movement to outlaw abortion, restrict contraception and severely limit the scope of reproductive health care.. . .
You lie!
Could Jamelle be thinking about his/her buttplug?
Yeah, he may as well hear to Rikers island. Theses assclowns are wasting O2.
Because Jamelle is black, he feels he must fight back for the lightly black Que-Mala. In reality about being STUCK, he’s really talking about her and that lying basterd running mate she mispicked like a fool. Grow up Jamelle and stop looking at color.
Just heard NY case is now after the election.
Jamelle Bouie is a Trump hating leftist with a very skewed outlook. I pay about as much attention to him as I would an annoying rash. He writes drivel not worth your time reading.
Wrong.
Wrong.
and Wrong.
New York Times = shit
Poor NYT is losing its power to fool American citizens.
Is this idiot trying to be serious?
Well, since you read it in the NYT, what did you expect?
And the alternative is... same stuff — continued inflation, wars, attacks on us, weaponized government, 24 million illegal aliens, higher gasoline prices....
Sounds terrible to me but I am a taxpayer and an American citizen.
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New York Judge Juan Merchan just postponed President Trump’s September 18th sentencing until after the election, moving it to November 26th.
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The NYT is stuck!
Phooey!
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