I wonder how “normal” JD would think bodily autonomy was if he suddenly lost his?
JD Vance puts his cast iron in the dishwasher pass it on
Been saying forever, abortion is a car that dog don’t want to catch. What a disaster for the GOP.
Look, the man had to deflect such a question, right? But if Vance, and by extent the Republican leadership, had the courage of their convictions, the answer is a no-brainer.
“No. I think they are far more concerned with preventing the murder of innocent children, which is not a right, no matter how you slice it.”
So, uh, is that message not resonating with women voters? Backing up the truck at this late date?
I’d imagine accusing millions of women as “murderers”, and then expecting their vote, probably also doesn’t really net much benefit to a campaign.
It really is that car huh.
Conservatives are no longer conserving the rate of change to human and social values traditional to the United States.
Under Trump they have become fully reactionary against anything outside of their wealth and privilege bubble.
So what Harris has done has pointed out that the GOP are not “normal” because their values are really really really far outside the norm.
Harris flipped it. Because it is true. And she is a better politician than Trump. Poor Vance, not having an ideological raft to believe in, can only say reactionary things.
Don’t buy their propaganda. They didn’t become this under Trump. They have always been the protectors of wealth and privelige. You can trace that history right back to the birth of Conservativism in post-revolution France. This is just the latest incarnation.
I highly, highly recommend Corey Robin’s book The Reactionary Mind. He breaks down the whole history of Conservativism in a very accessible manner, and shows how every incarnation of the movement has ultimately been about one thing and one thing only; preventing the enfranchisement of the disenfranchised.
Yeah… let’s talk about Trickle Down economics if you want to see pre Trump examples of the same agenda.
This seems like a good spot to recommend Roberts Evans Behind the Bastards: How Conservatism Won. in which “Robert sits down with David Bell to discuss how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all).” It’s a bit long but is very informative.
tl;dr the rich hated FDRs New Deal and immediately set about undoing everything it touched, they want a return to the gilded age with themselves as the robber barons and gentry and everyone else as a subservient underclass
He is deep in the right wing bubble mentality. He can’t fathom that people might not think the same way he does because he never ventures beyond his safe spaces, both online and in real life. What does his brain do when he sees a poll that says abortion rights are very popular with the majority of people in the US? Does he just mumble, “It doesn’t look like anything to me”?
According to findings released Wednesday by KFF, a nonprofit health think tank, 74% of women in the U.S. ages 18 to 49 think abortion should be legal. Around 70% support a federal right to abortion — the position held by Vice President Kamala Harris in a presidential election in which abortion rights are expected to be a motivating factor for many voters.
Nearly half of Republican women of reproductive age said abortion should be legal in most or all cases.
But this dude will continue to double down and alienate more women because he doesn’t live in reality. Keep it up, couch man.
I think it’s finally happening. The strength of GOP was a uniform set of supporters whereas dems were more like a coalition.
Turns out it’s easier to unite people against a common enemy than based on a shared belief and goal.
Well, like the dog that finally caught the car, they finally are implementing actual policy they stand for, and that might be what fractures their base.