Republicans Just Surrendered 2024 Election

[Alben Barkley]

I wouldn't go quite that far but I do think "Republicans want to take away your right to f--k" could be a powerful message. IF Democrats could play it smartly, which I am sadly less confident about given our recent history.

[Alben Barkley]

Close to 30 years old, and still spot on:

SIMPSONS DID IT!

They also did it here:

[Alben Barkley]

I think "Republicans want to take away YOUR rights to ..." could be a powerful message for Ds. But Rs could change that to "Republicans want to take away THEIR rights to ...", and R voters would eat that up.

So it really ends up in whether Ds can maintain a consistent message. A consistent message is not exactly the forte of Ds in the past.

I’m gonna guess even most Republicans use birth control and don’t want to see that right gone. Pointing out that “sodomy” laws could apply even to straight sex in some cases could help too. Plus the majority of Republicans now support gay marriage. Thomas’s opinion is definitely politically toxic to Americans but again, the question is whether or not Dems can capitalize on that.

[Alben Barkley]

Not that Kavanaugh's word means anything, but he signaled in his concurring opinion that the Roe ruling did not mean the right to contraception and other 14th amendment rights were next to fall. I know Thomas wants to overturn all of them, but Kavanaugh is the 5th vote. We know Alito, Thomas and ACB would prefer the US to be a theocracy.

I don't have faith the Democratic Party will be able to seize this moment, but I could be wrong. People on the left and the middle need to understand we are a Republican president away from a nationwide ban on abortion and perhaps gay marriage if the SCOTUS decides to overturn that, which I find more likely than contraception.

Ending the marriages of potentially millions(?) of people overnight would be unspeakably evil and disgusting, and I think most Americans would see that. Especially now that even most Republicans support gay marriage.

Does that mean this Court won't do it?

I don't have much faith in that anymore, sadly. Maybe Gorsuch would stop it based on his Bostock opinion? Maybe...