re: #50 jaunte

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The current attitude of the elites on both sides of the aisle in the wake of the draft leak could be explained in three words: “It’ll never happen.” That was the mantra for literal generations in this country, that Roe would never be overturned because it would be absolute political poison to the party that succeeded in doing it. So Repubs talked about abolishing it, Dems talked about enshrining it, but neither party ever did much on either front. There’s all sorts of laws on the books that date back to the 19th century regarding abortion that will go back into effect before the end of the year, laws that Dems could have done away with but did not. Likewise Repubs talked constantly about things like an amendment to ban abortion or create “personhood,” but whenever they were elected chose instead to ram through more tax cuts and war spending.

There is very real “dog that finally caught the car” energy on the Repub side, but there’s also a very real sense that Dems don’t know what to do because they never thought this day would actually come.