John Hayward
@Doc_0
It’s not a “SCOTUS leak,” the work of a lone rogue staffer. It’s a coordinated hard-Left/Democrat Party operation, and it’s going to backfire on them, because the Dem Party has utterly lost touch with ordinary Americans. It has no idea how they think or what concerns them.
For starters, the public simply does not agree with the extremist Democrat position on abortion. The Left has bullied and terrorized the public into passively ACCEPTING Roe v Wade for generations, but they don’t SUPPORT it. Bubbled Dems don’t understand the difference.
There’s nothing about the post-Roe landscape that the majority of Americans finds particularly troubling. The Left’s screaming freakout will alienate far more voters than it persuades. Dems needed to keep their kooks hidden, but instead they’re putting on a circus. Big mistake.
The thuggery on display from Democrats right now is DEEPLY alienating to most Americans. They don’t want to see imperious Dems shrieking about packing the Court and shredding the Constitution, or thugs menacing the families of Supreme Court justices.
Working Americans are hurting under Joe Biden’s policies. The last thing they want to see is a three-ring D.C. circus over protecting the income streams of rich, influential abortionists, hard on the heels of Biden trying to pick their pockets for student loan “forgiveness.”
The demographics Democrats were already losing to Republicans in this seismic political realignment are decidedly not pro-abortion. Dem extremism, coupled with Dem callousness toward their real concerns, will push them further away.
The Dems might rack up a few more points with a group they already had locked down tight, suburban single women, although a lot of that political support is pooled in blue areas that will make sure nothing actually changes after Roe is struck down.
Sure, pro-abortion activists and Very Online virtue-signalers will be energized... but so will pro-lifers, and last night’s primary turnout suggests GOP voters are far more energized than Democrats. Biden’s malaise will soak up much of the jolt Dems are trying to give their base.
The thing about energizing the respective activist communities is that pro-lifers view the end of Roe as the beginning, not the end, of their activism. They know they will have a lot of work to do, in state after state, and it’s a crusade they’ve been anticipating for decades.
Their morale is high because pro-lifers have been astoundingly successful so far, even with Roe in place, even with the left-wing media relentlessly demonizing them. They held their ground on one of the most slanted playing fields ever. They’d love to play on a level one.
We’re also in the middle of a broad and deep voter uprising against authoritarianism, and Roe is profoundly authoritarian in character. The people are sick and tired of “experts” with horrible track records insisting they’re not allowed to vote on anything important.
I’m not guaranteeing the GOP will play their cards right - but if they do, there is a powerful political narrative to be written, looping Roe in with the anti-groomer and anti-CRT battles, left-wing corporate totalitarianism, pandemic tyranny - the arrogance of a failed elite.
There is SO MUCH we’ve been forced to accept, so much we’ve been bullied into tolerating, and the pandemic lockdown’s exposure of left-wing extremism in schools shocked the American middle class with just how insane and malevolent our elites have become.
And we’re seeing that it’s NOT hopeless. The Left’s destructive victories are NOT permanent and irreversible. The degenerate political class we are presently saddled with is NOT the best we can do. We don’t have to settle for Dem totalitarianism OR Republican Failure Theater.
One other grave miscalculation Dems made when they launched Operation SCOTUS Leak: Abortion is one of those issues that only works for the Left when it’s kept vague and hypothetical. The more specifics emerge, the more the public turns pro-life, i.e. the ultrasound revolution.
The fight Dems picked over Roe v Wade is going to be filled with the kind of specifics that tend to pull moderate voters away from abortion extremism. For instance, the public generally favors rape and incest abortions - but they don’t realize how rare those really are.
The default pro-abortion position is very vague and lazy. A lot of it boils down to men bullied into thinking they have nothing to say on the issue - which is illogical, immoral, and contrary to core American principles. Some of those guys wake up when you get into specifics.
How could any American ever have subscribed to the sick and twisted notion that some citizens are not allowed to have an opinion on national issues, especially matters of life and death? It’s one of the ways Roe corrupted and weakened our society.
I think we’ve had just about enough of arrogant lectures from elites and their extremist online footsoldiers about how this or that group of Americans needs to shut up, obey, and pay the bills. We all have not just the right, but the RESPONSIBILITY, to be awake and aware.
Who knows how this SCOTUS fiasco will play out. Maybe intimidation tactics will work and justices will change their votes. Even if that happens, this whole operation is going to blow up in the Democrats’ faces, because they don’t have a clue how normal Americans think. /end
https://twitter.com/Doc_0/status/1521824195495309314
Thanks for that Doc 0 recap....I’m praying it backfires, BIGLY, in their faces, too.
Hoping this is the earthquake that jars folks from their stupor and begins to expose EVERY evil deed these horrid folks have done.
How many Americans know that there are only 8 countries in the world who allow elective abortion after 20 weeks? Two of them are Communist China and Communist North Korea. Why don’t Republican officeholders, supposedly pro-life, informing the public?