"Abortion: Is the Texas GOP the Dog that Caught the Car?" - thom hartmann "rant"

[orleans]

"Republicans are proud of how they're intimidating women in Texas. But could this abortion ban & its vigilantism be the tipping point that activates women & allies to take down the GOP?"

snip

Ever since the Reagan election of 1980 the GOP has been the party of billionaires and big business. The problem they’ve always faced, though, is that there aren’t enough morbidly rich voters to win elections and big companies can’t vote at all.

To get around that, they’ve brought together a coalition of fervent true believers, sometimes called “single issue voters,” representing a variety of “special interests.” These include:

* Working-class white racists (who Nixon first reached out to with his “Southern Strategy” in 1968)

* Sexually insecure male gun and military-garb fetishists

* Upper-middle-class and rural “anti-welfare” anti-tax white people

* “Christian” religious freaks who want their sect running the government

* Anti-abortion “pro-life” activists

Without all of these five groups, Republicans don’t have enough voters to take on the Democratic Party’s coalition of educated urban whites, racial minorities, gender minorities and women, Social Security/Medicare-age voters and young people.

Which raises a vital question about the Republican Party, both in Texas and across the country: will a final successful abortion ban take enough steam out of their most fervent followers that they’ll begin to lose elections in a bigger way than they are now?

more at link
https://hartmannreport.com/p/abortion-is-the-texas-gop-the-dog

[Merlot]

1. Sorry, but no. Nothing will take the steam out of the fervent followers.

They have SO much more on their list: birth control, women who vote, voters who aren't white, etc. They won't rest ever, even if their sect does run the gov't. They're just like the taliban and you don't expect them to mellow out any time soon, right?

[qazplm135]

2. No but

It sure will put some steam into our side.