'The environment is upside down': Why Dems are winning the culture wars

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Changes in public opinion may have reversed the political landscape for the culture wars.

It’s already the consensus that abortion is going to be a good issue for Democrats in November.

What’s only now becoming clear — as Republicans scrub their campaign websites of prior positions on abortion and labor to turn the focus of the midterms back to President Joe Biden and the economy — is just how much the issue is altering the GOP’s standard playbook.

For the first time in years, Republican and Democratic political professionals are preparing for a general election campaign in which Democrats — not Republicans — may be winning the culture wars, a wholesale reversal of the traditional political landscape that is poised to reshape the midterms and the run-up to 2024.

“The environment is upside down,” said Michael Brodkorb, a former deputy chair of the Minnesota Republican Party. “The intensity has been reversed.”

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For Republicans, the toxicity of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade was not singularly in the unpopularity of the decision, but in its undercutting of Republican efforts to brand Democrats as extreme. At the base of every non-economic attack Republicans leveled at Democrats — from crime to immigration and education — was the idea that the left was out of touch. But Roe, supported by a majority of Americans — including independents critical in a midterm election — was a reminder that on one of the most salient issues of the midterms, Democrats were in the mainstream.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. The radicalized Republican party has not changed their spots -- they aim to have a theocracy.

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

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[MagickMuffin]

2. The Culture War against women and taking away our right to make our own decisions

Is gonna be their downfall.

[Sky Jewels]

3. They are going to be in for a big shock on Nov. 8, methinks.

Also, this popped out: Patrick Ruffini, a Republican consultant and pollster ... said that while Republicans still have winning arguments on issues including school curriculum and pandemic-related restrictions ...

Pandemic restrictions? Are you effing kidding me?! WHAT pandemic restrictions?!