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  Because conservatives don't evolve on their views. It's literally what conservative means.
context: All they have is made up culture war bullshit, and nothing is working so they have no choice but to double down.
  Drag Queens isn't working. Multiple attempts.
  Vaccines isn't working. In fact, it killed a lot of their votes. Multiple attempts anyway. 
  Books with scary history isn't working. Multiple attempts.
  Some dudes laptop didn't work. Multiple attempts.
  Abortion is back on the table. Use to work, now its not. Lets give it more attempts.
  Maybe a migrant caravan will do the trick this time? >
  
  Right now they're on to task forces entering their homes to take their gas stoves. >
  
  Ah yes, I forgot about gas stoves (which most republicans probably don't even have).
  Real issues here. >
  
  Honest question: Why don't Republicans have gas stoves? Is it because they rent and most rentals have electric stoves because they are cheaper to install?
  Also, sauce please. >
  
  Possibly because of all the fossil fuels, NG is the least damaging to the environment? More likely because it's often the cheapest alternative for heating and cooking, and more progressives take the time to actually evaluate long term financial costs. >
  
  Also racism, homophobia, transphobia. Pretty much bigotry and othering minority groups in general. >
  
  It’s crazy that any woman would vote Republican. It’s obvious that their platform has no desire to improve women’s quality of life.
  Edit: also minority, person in lgbtq, chronically ill person, person with a conscious, etc. >
  
  My lesbian friend voted republican in the last election, and I just can't wrap my head around it. She voted for people who would wish for nothing good for her.  My only theory is that we live in a very blue state, and she's got a habit of going against the grain just for the sake of being contrary. It boggles the mind. >
  
  Can’t imagine voting against my own interests like that. >
  
  I've come to the conclusion that it's a low self esteem thing.
  They'd rather hurt people they hate more than improve their own lives, partially because they've been trained to believe hatred is all that's left to their lives. This is partially because they've been abused by the GOP's systems for so long. You can find this cycle consistently among just about anybody on the right, save many of the very wealthy who are simple unempathetic sociopaths who stomp on others to be selfish because it's worked for them.
  It's the psychological cycle of abuse playing out in the worst ways possible. Of course, these people would break some of that if they choose to be better, but the sheer levels of propaganda the GOP pushes out there makes that choice much less likely. Their ego gets boosted in all the wrong ways by grifters. They are fed hatred and their brains are trained to be hooked on those highs, rather than empathy and helping others. >
  
  It's also that the average American is... Ignorant about politics. Like, shamefully ignorant - often on purpose. "I just don't care about that" is something I hear a lot. They can name every single actor in The Last of Us but they can't name their representatives in Congress. They've seen all of the Marvel movies, but they don't understand how X thing that happened affects their daily lives.
  While protesting the removal of Roe v Wade, I had a sign that said "PROTECT ROE - PROTECT WOMEN." During the day, I talked to a woman in her late 20s - early 30s who saw my sign and sincerely asked me who Roe is. She had no idea. I told her about the case and she looked completely confused, "Wait, who got rid of abortion?" She had no idea that this shit had even happened. 
  Worse, it's not just ignorance but also a lot of "my team should win" competitiveness.
  I talk to Republicans regularly in a pub I visit (it's the only place I've found the ability to reach out without it devolving into anger) and they tell me about how the Trump tax cuts helped them. I explain exactly how it was the single biggest transfer of wealth (deficit spending to give tax cuts to richest Americans that now the average tax payer has to pay back and how the average person lost any tax break now) and they were horrified... They mostly didn't believe me until after several meetings and them "researching it" afterwards and me slapping down each and every argument about how it might somehow be Biden or the Democrats' fault why they lost their tax breaks the last couple years. I bring receipts. They start understanding and seem to get it. ...And then they still vote Republican because of some other issue that they now think is the most important. >
  
  
  And then they still vote Republican because of some other issue that they now think is the most important.
  
  You aren't going to convince me to buy a different brand of cereal by showing me the nutritional benefits of your brand, I already like the taste of mine.
  It's this. >
  
  The taste of republicans should be revolting, but changing taste buds ranges from insanely hard to impossible. >
  
  Let’s all go out for abortions to celebrate the GOP’s death spiral. First round is in me. >
  
  
  First round is in me. 
  
  Idk if that was a typo or deliberate, but it was great either way. >
  
  It was a typo, but a damn good one lol >
  
  Dammit, you had my hopes up and my pants down already. >
  
  Misogyny is a key value for them. They can’t have a fascist state if women are equal. >
  
  It is simple, we have a minority rule. The Supreme Court can flip cases, the House can do whatever. While they lost the presidency, the GOP can keep pushing crap out because to Supreme Court. McConnell played the long game and won. >
  
  They took back the house! The gop nuked roe and still took back the house! 
  They didn't lose. The senate was a testament to changing realities in some places but Holly Molly y'all got some work to do. 
  Go take Texas for real. >
  
  They barely won after gerrymandered maps, when a year ago they were projected to win by 40-50 seats. As boomers die, people move, and gen z comes of voting age the house will shift back blue. >
  
  Accelerate it by getting young people to vote. 
  Make voting online a thing. >
  
  Online voting is a TERRIBLE idea. You want to talk about making our democracy vulnerable? That’s a easy way to do it. >
  
  Because having people wait in line for hours, without water, armed nutbags screaming at vote counters, all kinds of shenanigans about whether or not a box has been sufficiently marked or not, mail delays... Has been so good for democracy. 
  Btw Estonia has been doing it for years. I never heard of any issues. Have you? >
  
  I think trying to compare Estonian and US elections is pretty misguided. Estonia has roughly 880,000 registered voters, the US has roughly 170,000,000 spread across a ton of space. It would just open the door further to claims of “fraud” within the election system particularly if you’d be able to vote online from home. Just not a feasible plan at this time for US elections. >
  
  You've described why voting online is more feasible in the US vs all the issues with physical voting. 
  More people, in more places, with different rules, in different time zones - seems like there would be more abuse in person. >
  
  You haven’t explained to me how we can make it secure enough to actually rely on? Sure in a utopia this would be perfect, seem to be ignoring all of the factors that make this a laughable proposition at this moment in time. >
  
  What's not safe? If Estonia can do no it, Americans can do it. If you can file your taxes online and do banking online, why is voting so much more critical?
  In Canada we can use banking credentials to access government websites to file taxes or anything else. I'm not going to describe federation and IAM architecture. We know how to secure websites and operations. No reason voting can't be integrated as well. >
  
  It's 110% to keep the political discussion away from economics, wealth inequality, and social support. Abortion bans aren't even aligned with their voter base. It's a talking point manufactured at the top to keep the public fighting for very basic rights instead of being able to worry about other provisions (health care and wealth equality and what-have-you). It works on both sides of the table as well, as it pushed Democrat talking points in this grim direction. >
  
  Bingo. Pretty much all of the ongoing culture war rhetoric exists to avoid talking about real pocket book issues and prevent people from thinking about why they can't afford child care or health insurance. >
  
  Because they aren't looking to win elections anymore, they are looking to get rid of elections. >
  
  Exactly! Whether the country wants them or not! They quit listening to their constituents a long time ago! They only listen to their $$$ friends! >
  
  I think it is misogyny veiled by a pretend concern for children. They have no interest in helping actual children at all, for fear of socialism or communism. They don't want to be made to spend a penny to help someone else, even if they'll die. They look down on sexually active women, but believe men are entitled to sex with women. They want no repercussions for the man if he gets a woman pregnant, and in some cases support a man's right to abortion, whether it's forcing the woman into one or financially absolving themselves. The woman must never get a say in what happens to her. It echoes less developed societies in the world and it's time we moved past such antiquated ways of thinking. >
  
  Misogyny, racism, and homophobia is what the GOP is motivated by. Everything else is a means to the end of hatred and violence. >
  
  Yup. Whenever I hear someone say the GOP believes in nothing and are only after power, I wonder how it’s possible they haven’t noticed they very much believe in straight white male supremacy. The fact that they are so determined to maintain this dominance they would throw out democracy to not only prevent equality from being fully realized, but to reverse the progress that’s been made. >
  
  I feel the same when I hear people saying the GOP has no platform.  Oh, they have a platform, and it's entirely oppressive to any but white male Christians. >
  
  Because they’re incapable of acknowledging that people don’t want what they want. >
  
  They are “good people” and are against abortion ergo abortion is bad and only “bad people” would want abortion.  The leakage of prosperity gospel can be seen in the cracks of all of our fabricated cultural wars.  What I mean by that is the belief that if one is “good” whatever that person does is “good” and if they are rich it’s because whatever they did to be rich was also good; therefore emulating that person will make you rich, too.  If you don’t become rich, it’s because you’re bad, not that the “good””rich” person is an utter fabrication, derelict, and parasite. >
  
  It really is pervasive, this notion that if I feel like a good person, I am a good person. Damned if they ever have to fucking prove it. This is why they won't address their latent racism, sexism, xenophobia, fascist tendencies etc. Because when you call them out, they immediately retreat to this identity of being a "good person", and they couldn't possibly be any of those things because that would mean they're a "bad person" and they don't feel like a "bad person" they feel like a "good person". 
  Shit, this isn't even exclusive to Christians. We have this weird strain of moralized identity, where people identify as morally good without any sort of empirical support for that identity. My mother is like this; she's not a monster or anything, but she certainly doesn't really do any good for anybody. Wouldn't guess it hearing her talk, you'd think she was a saint martyr ready to sacrifice her life for some noble cause. She just sits around getting drunk and watching TV. But she's convinced she's a great person, so when you point out her drinking problem or penchant for lying, it becomes an attack on her identity as a "good person", then she cries and stops listening. 
  IDK where the fuck this idea came from, but my contrarian ass avoids it by contending that I and everyone else is a piece-of-garbage, immoral bastard until proven otherwise. >
  
  Are you my brother? My mom is the same person.  “Why do I always get the shit end of the stick? I’m a good person!” Sure mom, you are, sometimes, and you’re not Stalin, that’s true.  But you’re fuckery over the last 50ish years is legendary “sometimes I think you guys make that stuff up” … the axe forgets but the tree remembers, mom
  Edit : it’s easy to avoid because good people usually don’t try to sell themselves as a good person.  I am always just trying to be better. >
  
  Desantis is going for a full 6 week ban without exception for rape or incest. 
  I’m terrified for young girls. But I’m also terrified for myself. Im perimenopausal. I have a disability. I could die if I get pregnant. 
  This is going to greatly harm so many women and girls. >
  
  Fascist movements are always sexist movements.
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  GOP want to own slaves. 
  Women in the home, and PoC in the fields/factories. >
  
  Seriously though. Alienating so much of the country that you claim to serve does not seem like an effective winning strategy >
  
  Unless winning by getting people to vote for them isn’t the plan. >
  
  Or, maybe they don’t actually have a plan. These are republicans we’re talking about. >
  
  They have a playbook and they're loyal to it even when they don't win, because it worked a previous time. >
  
  That’s not a plan, that’s a tactic, and one that’s only effective in the short-term. >
  
  Basically, entirely that: distrust and hatred of their mothers. Full stop. >
  
  Because they're also trying to kill the free and fair elections where they lose.
  The stuff Republicans are doing are parts of a whole that would transform America into a Christian Saudi Arabia. Stop treating this shit as unrelated. >
  
  Anti-abortion voters are an absolutely irreplaceable part of the GOP base. GOP policies on abortion are unpopular, but they'd break their coalition if they moderated their position on abortion. There isn't a winning move for Republicans on this issue. The best they can try for is to keep it from costing them otherwise winnable elections. Ideally, they'd like anti-abortion voters to see them passing strict anti-abortion bills, while the majority of voters ignore the issue. >
  
  Republicans hate women and freedom of choice >
  
  What other choice do they have?
  They can't walk back overturning Roe and say "Oh, we don't want to ban abortion completely anymore, we've seen the error of our ways."
  No one who supports choice would believe them, and the fundies would get pissed off at their heresy.
  So the only option they have is to keep going further right. >
  
  Controlling women’s bodies and the hatred of homosexuals is the core issues for the Republicans.  These are the two issues that they are consumed with. >
  
  What about the sexist dress codes appearing in state and local governments?  I'm finding it hard to read it any other way than an attack on women. >
  
  it’s not about “dress codes” it’s about control…. A woman should decide what to wear. This isn’t a sports team. >
  
  It’s almost like the modern “two party” system is designed to tear normal people apart with social issues while the ultra rich continue to pilfer. >
  
  I don't really think it cost them anything. If it did do anything for them, it allowed them to even further come out of their shell, REALLY push for these fascist policies, and allow them to live their truth while making sure that no one else is allowed to. >
  
  The anti abortion fanatics control the party and have for a decade.  They have the whole Primary system in their pockets so they pick the most extremely religious candidates every time.  You didn't think they were going to just give up that political power once RvW was overturned... they never do. >
  
  Why did Trump push for anti-trans nonsense after the 2022 election showed it + abortions motivated record youth turnout? 
  Because what else is Trump supposed to push? Tax cuts for the wealthy? The modern republican party cannot hide behind a single issue of substance. Openly cheating the system is all they have as a viable tactic now, besides turning their followers into extremist zealots. >
  
  Here is what they are gambling on…that this motivates their base more than it angers those opposed.
  The problem is…it has worked in the past. Whether or not their is enough of the base left (due to aging) is not something I would bet on. >
  
  It worked in 2022, too.  D voters weren't motivated enough to keep the House. >
  
  D voters were never going to keep the House. That’s just not something that happens in midterm elections. 
  
  In the 22 midterm elections from 1934 -2018, the President's party has averaged a loss of 28 House seats and four Senate seats. The president’s party gained seats in the House only three times, but gained seats in the Senate on six occasions. The president’s party has gained seats in both houses only twice. >
  
  You are right the D's did better than expected based on historical voting patterns.  It's just that I had hoped Dobbs would be a game-changer, and though it was to some extent, it should have been a much bigger game-changer.  Women's human and civil rights were stripped away from the Constiution leaving them up for grabs, and the GOP promised to keep it coming.  The D's should have been even more motivated to vote in 2022 than ever. >
  
  I agree with you. I just don’t like the doom and gloom outlook of “since democrats didn’t keep the House, they are losing this fight on abortion rights” when all signs point to the opposite. >
  
  They won't be happy until they make reality resemble a Margaret Atwood novel. >
  
  Republicans knew that overturning Roe would have some long term consequences, but they don’t care. They won. That’s the difference between the two parties. Republicans know how to pass their agenda. By any means necessary. Now abortion is essentially illegal. Why would they give a shit about anything else? >
  
  The ~~GOP~~ Pro Rapist Party >
  
  Most Americans, including most registered Republicans, do not favor a ban on abortion. They want safe, legal and rare abortion. They may want some restrictions on late term abortion. But the overwhelming majority of Americans, including plenty of Christians and Catholics, do not want a ban on abortion. They're pursuing suicidal political agendas >
  
  We outnumber the men and the base and we will vote. If we don't vote, run for office, and take some control of this and let misogynists take our freedom over our bodies, we will be slaves forever. We have the numbers all you freedom-loving women and men who respect and love us! >
  
  Because they are not yet ready to do what is necessary, burn the party to the ground and rebuild from the ashes.  They have not lost enough left to "learn".  They lost in 2018, they lost big in 2022, they failed to achieve victory in 2022, they will certainly lose the house and the presidency in 2024.  Right in the aftermath of 2024 they will start to realize they need to really, really change if they are to stay relevant.  They need to extinguish the last vestiges of Trump, stolen elections, abortion, anti gay, evangelicals and maybe even the more blatant racists.  They still think the same old things that stopped working year ago are suddenly going to start to work if they just go far right enough. >
  
  They won't do any of that, it's their entire base. There's nothing for them to build on without the lowest forms of life the US has to offer. >
  
  Their base shrinks every minute. Angry old white people are aging out >
  
  I used to believe that, but decades have passed, and the angry old white people are continually replaced by angry white young people.  Radical right wingers come in all ages, particularly with the evangelical churches indoctrinating young people.  The March for Life marchers are young - they fly planes full of teenagers to attend those marches, and they hang out in front of PP clinics torturing women who go in for medical care. >
  
  Except each generation votes less and less for republicans. 
  
  63% of 18- to 29- year olds voted Democrat and 35% voted Republican in the House of Representatives elections. Voters between 30 and 44 split their vote between the two parties, while older voters tended to vote Republican.
  
  That doesn’t bode well for their future. >
  
  They still won the house, and prevented the Dems from getting 52 Senate seats
  Clearly abortion cost the GOP from winning a 2010 style win. But also clearly abortion still wasn't enough of a motivation for voters to give Dems the majorities they'd need to actually pass legislation protecting abortion rights. And the GOP see this >
  
  well i would say you are wrong kind of. Gerrymandering is what cost the dems from having majorities in the house. >
  
  That would only make sense if the Dems won the popular vote. They did not >
  
  It barely cost them anything. Apparently the memories of Americans are like goldfish because they're already just as popular as they were before the overturn. >
  
  And yet they didn't win the senate and a supposed 50-60 seat pick up in the house turned out to be like 8. Enough with the doomer bullshit this absolutely impacted the midterm elections negatively for the GOP. >
  
  Who cares about midterm results? Abortion rights were lost. Having a temporarily smaller legislative majority pales in importance to what was a sweeping achievement for the GOP in the dissolution of rights that may never be won back. >
  
  One part of the party's reasoning for taking up abortion as an issue after they lost on segregation, was that they never thought they could win on it. What good is an issue that fires up a solid 10% of voters to support you if you can win on it and those 10% just wander off?
  Then along came Donald Trump and actually gave them the justices that they needed to win.
  So now they're just blowing on the embers of that once great flame trying hard to keep those 10% engaged and it's not working. Also they handed Democrats and issue that they can use to keep 20% constantly fired up... and that they never have to actually win on. >
  
  Ideology. >
  
  They have a book… >
  
  They are fascists coddling a christian nationalist movement. >
  
  We call them Nationalist-Christians,  or Nat-C for short. >
  
  Because each must try to out conservative each other.  It starts by banning books and ideas and ends. You know damn good and well where it ends! >
  
  They saw house close the races where and see no down side to keep pressing on. >
  
  Women have been saying this for years about the GOP.  Glad some of the media is finally catching up. >
  
  It is a continuation of the path they have been on for over 40 years.
  It is the reason the term RINO has meant something different over time.
  The republican party keeps retreating from the center on all social and economic issues and moving more to the radical right for voters.  In the process they have lost more and more mainstream centrist support in elections which forced them to move more forcefully to the radical right for votes.
  I cannot imagine any previous republican presidential nominees being able to win the republican nomination in the Trump era.
  
  Richard Nixon
  Gerald Ford
  Ronald Reagan
  GHW Bush
  Bob Dole
  GW Bush
  John McCain
  
  All of those guys would be RINO in today's conservative cinematic universe. >
  
  ""Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte >
  
  Because what are they gonna do, create meaningful policies to fix our problems ? >
  
  Really just hatred of any kind does the trick. Cruelty is the point. >
  
  I’ve been saying that since Ronnie Ray-gun—they’re fuckin sadists >
  
  I mean, did it really cost them that much? Sure, it wasn't a decisive victory, but they still won back the House and they're currently on track to win back the Senate in 2024. And hell, all it would take is a few Electoral College votes to swing the other way and we could see another GOP President in 2024 as well. >
  
  The GOP has kind of painted themselves into a corner by reflexively opposing and demonizing everything the Democrats do, it’s impossible to change their position on some topics. Which means no matter how stupid a policy is or how much it hurts them their only option is to support it even if that support is tepid at best >
  
  They have to use fear to motivate their minions to get out and vote. 
  Now that Roe v Wade has been overturned, they have to use anything they can find to terrify their moronic minions. The flavor of the day seems to be trans-children. Women enjoying a fulfilling sex life is a good old standby as is immigrants and brown people of any sort.
  They have no platform, they have no plan to govern, all they have is fear and tax cuts for the rich. >
  
  I’ve been called sexist for saying republican women are stupid.  But damn are they stupid. >
  
  Republicans want cruelty and violence. They will support whatever policies necessary towards those ends. >
  
  The fact that millions of Americans will vote for people standing for misogyny is worrisome. >
  
  Because they don't care what voters want because they fascists. >
  
  Even the women are misogynistic. It’s crazy. >
  
  Religion is a dangerous drug. And those women are all virulently religious. >
  
  That’s true. But my mom and nana are two examples. My nana thinks if women get raped that’s on them for putting themselves in a position to get raped. She says men can’t control themselves, and it’s on women to moderate sexual impulses within a society, and to use it as a way to wield power and influence with the men they end up marrying. She thinks that is totally normal. She isn’t the least bit religious. My mom is a little more moderate, but not much. She isn’t religious either. 
  With that said, I think you are spot on for the most part. >
  
  Party of Morons >
  
  Don't forget a reversal would make them look weak to their base.  And god forbid they ever agree on something with Democrats. >
  
  It's how you win a GOP primary race. >
  
  They go all in but as long as they control the levers of power in places that they can't be stopped due to similarities and gerrymandering... >
  
  Cause they are fucking assholes and don't give a shit about women, rights, or anything at all other than gaining and holding on to power by whatever means.... >
  
  They hate that women should be free to control their own bodies. >
  
  A shrinking aging base which they managed to dwindle during the height of COVID and continue to dwindle with their asinine anti vax and anti mask practices. >
  
  "I'm not a misogynist"
  "Yeah, I'm a misogynist, so what?" >
  
  Made up culture war bullshit has served them well since the Reagan years, but I think this time the group that they are targeting for "othering" (women) may be too big. Who knows, though - plenty of women are disdainful of women. >
  
  The long-term goal of the GOP is to not honor the result of elections. 
  Additionally, putting aside their lean toward fascism, even in a democracy, each party tends to only want to get the minimum support they absolutely need to gain power. The more people you "owe" for achieving power, the more people you have to pay out. And you will struggle to pay everyone that supported you, especially as you require more support. Republicans would prefer to gain power with less than 30% of the vote, if possible, so they can just bribe that 30% and can steal from the other 70%. They'd love to get that number to 10% or 0% if possible. They will never put in the effort to appeal to a single additional person above what they absolutely have to, because they operate on direct bribes, not on strong policy. >
  
  Because they are fucking idiots. >
  
  The entire Republican Party vision for the country can be summed up in this way.
  Gays back in the closet, women back in the kitchen, brown people back on their side of the tracks "where they belong", and a Bible in every classroom. >
  
  Republicans think the can get away with rigging future elections to the point that they will stay in power. 2020 was the dry run. 2022 showed that only a portion of our population wants these lowlifes to ever have power again. >
  
  Culture war is all they know. >
  
  Correction: it is what turns ON their base. >
  
  Because the positions they have are sufficient to dig in and defend.
  The red states are now blood red and they just need to defend those, since, you know, the Senate is still 2 senators per state, and despite everything republicans still manage the house which means they get to manage the debt ceiling, so now they can play economic terrorism, not just political. >
  
  The elephant in the room here is that "the base" is a cancer slowly killing the USA's democracy. >
  
  So Authoritarianism.... >
  
  Because their base is extremists, and they have to continue to push more extreme agendas to keep them interested >
  
  The GOP never accomodates the will of the people. It merely comes up with ways to ignore or circumvent the will of the people: Dark money, voter suppression, gerrymandering, fake electors, terror attacks on the Capitol, etc. >
  
  The GOP is only Pedophiles and grifters! >
  
  because that’s what cowards do… >
  
  The Republican base always needs someone else to hate. If they don't have someone to hate then they'll end up realizing that they should, rightfully, hate their politicians for doing absolutely nothing to help them. The morons they elect are skilled at stoking anger and turning non-issues into partisan politics.
  One day I'd hope that stupid Republican voters wake up and see this, but, I am also not holding my breath here because *gestures broadly*. >
  
  It’s all they have left.  They feel that they have to push the narrative and see if it can sway voters.   
  When the GOP had a platform, they focused on 2A and anti-abortion.  The abortion is is the only way they can satiate the religious right. >
  
  I think it's because they barely have significant power and they need every vote on board to get any crazy GOP thing done.  So the ones who's main concern is tax cuts for the wealthy need the crazies doubling down on anti-choice to vote for their concerns and vice versa.  That's why whoever that Santos guy really is, is also needed for his vote.  Unless someone takes him away in handcuffs, I don't think you'll see him going anywhere. >
  
  They literally serve no purpose to society. Or in life. >
  
  Isn't this title contradictory? How can it "cost the GOP", but at the same time "turn out their base"? If it turned out their base, it obviously isn't hurting them? But we've seen it actually does hurt them by their shitting of the bed in the midterms, so it must not be turning out their base? >
  
  
  Isn't this title contradictory?
  
  No, not really. The abortion stance is driving away the moderates, but if they go more moderate, it will drive away the extremists >
  
  It also helps them control population movement. Many traditionally red states have been slowly getting more purple as young people move in from other parts of the country. Harsh abortion restrictions keep women of child bearing age from wanting to move to your state. They don't need a national majority, they just need to hold enough states. >
  
  Republincels. >
  
  It also turns out the opposition, so like, what's the net gain? >
  
  they're the dog that caught the car and are chomping down on the bumper. >
  
  I was 34 years old when I learned that a healthy portion of American women are misogynists. >
  
  "Instead of fighting back and exposing Democratic extremism on abortion, many Republican candidates failed to remind Americans of our proud heritage of challenging slavery, segregation, and the forces eroding the family and the sanctity of human life," read the resolution. To fix the problem, the RNC argued, Republicans need to pass even harsher anti-abortion laws, such as banning first trimester abortions. 
  Lol. “We’re the party that ended slavery AND segregation!”
  No. The conservative southern racists that perpetrated slavery and segregation are still the conservative southern racists they always were.
  Signed, a guy who grew up in the racist, conservative south. >
  
  I would really like to see this study and the nuance between men who are pro-forced birth and the women who are pro-foced birth.  Do they have the same attitudes or is there something else going on? >
  
  In my experience, having grown up in the Midwest, it’s often that these women were either raised with these views or just have no sense of self or self worth and end up marrying men, around whom they fashion their entire life & image, soaking up his views & interests. Or both. >
  
  Uh, so this will help them win primaries, are they just planning future coups to seize power instead of winning general elections? >
  
  I think they are also against the sun.  Because it casts a black shadow. >
  
  The GOP is like a dog chasing a car. >
  
  True, but before the fascist take-over of SCOTUS, nobody thought Roe would be overturned, so the opposition to Womens' Rights in elections were a non-issue. That changed with Dobbs, and a sizable portion of what had been Marmalade Moses' base evaporated. The Misogynists were never very bright, and now their stupid will cost the GOP dearly in every federal election, and most of the State offices as well. >
  
  They love turning out women to turn out their base.