It’s not a question of “caving.” It’s a question of being strategic. Reagan could win big in 1980 and 1984, despite running on an unabashed, unapologetic anti-abortion platform but it was a different time. Roe vs. Wade was only 7(-11) years old at that point, and then, compared to now, a lot more Americans weren’t so gung-ho on abortion. Roe really could have ben and should have been overturned at that point, but Reagan whiffed on his SCOTUS picks with O’Connor and Kennedy (after the Bork debacle)... setting the stage for Roe’s unfortunate continuation for another THREE DECADES.
What happened in those 30 years? Tens of millions more women had abortions, and tens of millions more men procured and/or pressured women to have abortions; parents encouraged the abortions of their grandchildren, etc. etc. All those people have blood on their hands... but, unfortunately, they also vote. And when abortion is on the ballot or perceived to be, it’s like a referendum on their own guilt.
At this point, the best we can do is take the win with Dobbs and leave the issue to the states. Maybe after a couple more generations, when most of the post-abortive voters of our era are dead and gone, the pro-life side can do something at the nationwide level but we’re not there yet.
At the rate we’re going, I don’t even know if this country will exist in a couple generations. The left is so determinedly working to destroy it.
I certainly do understand the reasoning behind this whole abortion issue to try to get in a conservative president, but I wonder just how much it really will work.
Will Trump changing his position really cause the Trump haters to vote for him after all? I doubt it.
Or is this a ploy by the left to push Trump in a direction that they know will turn some of his base against him? To me, this seems like the end goal of this push.
What most people don’t realize, which isn’t going to play into the election at all, is that some day, everyone will have to stand before God and give account for their lives and actions. And that is going to have far more serious consequences than the political ones we are looking at here and now.
And yet, I also realize the futility of using that argument with people who don’t even believe in God. That will never sway any election.
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