Will Bunch: It's your rights, stupid. How Kansas showed Dems a roadmap to '22 victory

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Why is today's GOP more dangerous than ever? Because its new generation is eager to use the coercive power of the state to punish their enemies and take away fundamental rights

Kansas voters got this. Can the Dem's message-makers catch up? My new column

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It’s your rights, stupid. How Kansas showed Dems a roadmap to ‘22 victory
Kansas showed how Dems must hammer GOP as the party of taking away your basic rights — at the doctor’s office, the library, and the voting booth.
10:12 AM · Aug 7, 2022

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/kansas-abortion-victory-democrats-midterms-20220807.html

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It’s said that there’s literally nothing that America’s liberals and conservatives can agree upon in 2022, but that overlooks this simple truth: Nobody on either side of the political chasm likes the government telling them how to live their everyday life. In a recent high-profile election in Kansas, a brilliant political ad drilled into that mindset and struck gold.

“They call it a constitutional amendment. The truth? It’s a strict government mandate, designed to interfere with private medical decisions — a slippery slope that could put more of your individual and personal rights at risk,” begins the 30-second spot, as pictures of concerned-looking citizens appear on the screen. “The ballot language is confusing but one thing is clear — Kansans don’t want another government mandate.” The ad ends with a plea to reject “government control.”

Last Tuesday, voters in the Sunflower State took that message — from the Kansas Abortion Amendment PRO NO PAC, although “abortion” is never mentioned in this spot — to heart. By a landslide margin of 59-41%, Kansans rejected a ballot question to remove reproductive rights protections from their state constitution, in the first pure test of voter sentiment on the hot-button issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.

The stunning size of the defeat for conservative antiabortion activists had political pundits scrambling to read a new batch of tea leaves, as America turns its focus to a midterm election less than 100 days away. To be clear, any newfound Democratic energy from anger over the new abortion landscape has to be balanced against other crosscurrents, including lingering voter angst over inflation and the long history of midterm election backlash against the party in power.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. The radicalized Republican party is the American Taliban -- they want your submission or death.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!