Democrats sometimes act like they are trying to lose elections.
So do Republicans. Especially in Texas.
I prepared a blog post I expected to publish this week: "Prediction Trump."
I was going to write that I now thought it likely that Trump would win election in 2024. Democrats are making so many policy and messaging mistakes that they are forcing Americans to vote for a ranting con man who attempted to overthrow the government rather than retain a Democrat in office. Democrats are vulnerable:
***Democrats are conspicuously avoiding dealing with the southern border, which is a real problem, not just a Fox News invention. Immigrants in the hundreds of thousands are openly gaming the country's asylum laws.
***Democratic branding on wedge cultural issues makes Democrats look extreme and out of touch on issues of relating to sex, gender, affirmative action, and race. They give off a college-town vibe, not a blue collar vibe, and blue collar people are voting Republican.
***Biden said he was a transition, but now he is sticking around for another term. He looks rickety. Voters get restless.
***Hunter Biden stops Biden from making a clear distinction against Trump on character, clean government, and influence peddling.
***Young voters think Biden is far too supportive of Israel. For young voters, the holocaust is ancient history. What they have seen in their own observation is a strong Israel under Netanyahu's leadership bullying captive Palestinians.
***Trump can sell. He is relentless in saying he is being picked on, that his presidency was a tremendous success, and that he will bring welcome change.
But in comes Texas to the rescue for Democrats.
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| Kate Cox. The Texas woman with the doomed pregnancy. |
Texas said "no" to Kate Cox. Texas Republicans decided to make a pleasant-looking 31-year-old married White blonde woman into a victim of Texas abortion overreach. Ms. Cox loves children. She wants more children. She is carrying a doomed fetus -- everyone agrees on that -- and having a full-term birth risks her ability to have other children because she has already had two prior C-sections. No one disagrees with that, either.
Her doctor, Damla Karsan, verified the fetal problem and the risk to the mother's health. She recommended an abortion. Ms. Cox wants it. They had to go to a judge and the state judge said "yes." The Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton steps in and blocks the abortion. Paxton sent letters to hospitals warning them they risked fines and prison if they assisted her. Texas law also allows anyone -- indeed multiple people -- to sue anyone who assists Ms. Cox, so the Cox family and anyone who assisted them could face millions of dollars in legal judgements.
The State Supreme Court backed Paxton. They ruled that her physician said that it was her considered judgement that Ms. Cox was endangered, but that the doctor failed to meet the standard that would allow an abortion. The Texas Court opinion said Dr. Karsan failed to cite some broader medical consensus for her conclusion and therefore the abortion was not necessarily consistent with "reasonable medical judgement."
The big message being broadcast to America's voters is that Texas abortion law goes beyond defending the moral sentiments of "good people" by shaming and hassling the promiscuous and careless. Nor is it about protecting unborn life. It is about control. Texas law bears down on good people -- nice normal blonde Texas mothers, heartlessly making their misfortune and misery even worse.
Cruel.
The case involves everything people hate about lawyers, about regulations, about invasion of sexual privacy, and about arbitrary government rulings. This captures the "Don't tread on me" sentiment. It changes the frame of the abortion issue, clarifying that it is about freedom from government overreach by tyrants. And the tyrants are Republicans.
About the time I think that Republicans are sure to sweep 2024 Texas does something like this.
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Friedrich Nietzsche once observed, “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
After WWII, the U.S. enjoyed a brief period of imagining that Leave It To Beaver and Father Knows Best was the norm. Welcome to the new normal: women’s healthcare dictated by legislatures, Whites whining about being discriminated against and a major political party led by a traitorous madman. What a great way for the oligarchs to distract us from the fact that fossil fuels are killing us.
Republicans remind me of the morality police in Afghanistan or Iran, just less radical. They insist their morals are the God ones regarding abortion, homosexuality, transgender issues, and maybe the proper role of women. At least they are still allowing music to be unregulated, but it doesn’t seem like they have many limits. I wonder if Jews and Muslims could be at risk at some point as well. Germany waited for Hitler to stop his rhetoric extremes. A few years ago I would have viewed these sentiments as absurd, but are they?
Hello Eeyore. Are you enjoying your usual half-empty glass of unsweetened lemon juice?
Just to make a simple point, you give us a list of reasons not to support our Democratic president, except for Texas Republicans and Ms. Cox.
It may be news to Democratic Biden haters, but there are MANY other good reasons to re-elect President Biden. But self-defeating Democratic haters will intentionally omit that information because they have Biden derangement syndrome.
Sounds like an opportunity for No Labels or some other 3rd party.
The D’s suck on cultural issues, and the border.
The R’s suck on abortion and … Trump.
Something new and innovative and centrist would be refreshing.
Well, they haven't started clubbing women in the streets , or stoning them to death like the Talibs in Afghanistan. Yet.
These so-called cultural issues allow freedom to people that you don't like.
It's all about hate, your hate.
Sticks and stones… 🤷♂️
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