It wasn't a criticism
Many of the anti-abortion people are probably also proponents of this check. They couldn't care less about other incidental issues. That means if Trump proclaimed himself Caudillo/Lord Protector and followed in Franco's/Cromwell's footsteps, that faction might actually cheer him on.
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Remind me to never ask you for a compliment.
[Remind me to never ask you for a compliment.]
It was a matter-of-fact observation, not about abortion per se, but using the abortion vote as an example. I could have picked national security, law and order, or any number of other Trump coalition interests. I picked abortion at random probably because it began with the letter “a” and had the fewest syllables. It wasn’t a criticism in the sense that there are people who have said, in not so many words, that a Gracchi moment has been reached, and a crack-up of the old order is imminent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracchi#Aftermath