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David Muccigrosso's avatar

AB... I hate to go negative here, but took some time to cool down and still felt this needed to be said.

I really don't like the conspiratorial intonations that Elizabeth and Lisa trafficked in. Libs may have been surprised by Dodd, but as someone who grew up on the right, it was incredibly easy to see what was happening over the last 20-30 years. It was NOT a conspiracy, it was the left hearing what it wanted to hear, imagining that the word "precedent" had some sort of magic power that it simply did not.

Also, Cecile Richards was no hero; she was the human embodiment of the shortsighted abortion-rights leadership cult that mistook a consensus for "safe, legal, and rare" as a mandate to expand pro-choice rhetoric in the most extreme ways possible. The way they hounded out pro-life Dems from the party is one of the single biggest drivers of that party's current inability to remain competitive in rural areas. These people took a second-and-short on their own 20 and threw a Hail Mary into a Pick 6 while knifing their own slot receiver's Achilles, and act like it was the most noble thing they could have done.

So... without being too mean about it, IMO they deserve every bit of anguish they feel about the millions of women they've screwed over with their misleadership of their own movement.

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