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  It's in their playbook. Their playbook is their true bible.
context: Keep it up, it is a truly winning strategy  /s
  
  After re-electing Ronna McDaniel as its leader, the Republican National Committee has passed an anti-choice resolution instructing the party to “go on offense” against abortion rights and pass legislation including six-week bans.
  In the resolution passed Monday, the RNC pushes the party apparatus—candidates, consultants, and committees—to “go on offense in the 2024 election cycle,” with regards to abortion. It further urges Republicans in state legislatures and Congress to pass the “strongest” anti-choice legislation possible, using language previously used to justify so-called “heartbeat” bills that would ban abortions at six weeks, before many even know they are pregnant.
  
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  Neither here nor there, the resolution also farcically cites the party’s “proud heritage of challenging slavery, segregation” as a complement to their anti-choice resolution. The former, of course having little to do with the latter, is an effort today’s Republican Party would be hard-pressed to support, given they don’t even want kids to learn about slavery, segregation, or race generally. >
  
  Give them a few more years and they'll be openly advocating to reinstate slavery. >
  
  They'll be selling indentured servitude as a way to combat homelessness and learn job skills and work ethic. >
  
  “company provided housing" + "company provided healthcare" + "employee discounts using company script at company stores" >
  
  Worry free >
  
  Serf >
  
  They're already offensive >
  
  cuz it’s been working out so well for them up to now… >
  
  It hasn't hurt them enough, and worse, that's the sort of behavior that their base is demanding. >
  
  Yep. In a sane world, Jan 6 support plus the Court's 6-3 totally partisan abortion ruling should have destroyed the GOP. Instead - even though it was by the skin of their teeth - they still won control of the House. 
  Some of the worst election deniers were defeated, but many others are still serving at all levels of government. They are pressing this wedge issue because their Christian authoritarian base likes it. And because they believe they have rigged the system enough to win no matter what the majority of citizens want. >
  
  I just assume most has to do with gerrymandering. There are districts that are so safe they can say and do anything. >
  
  Don't assume that. Republicans won over 50% of the popular vote for the House. Yes, with a different texture of gerrymandering it might not have been enough, but in the end the result was just. >
  
  That's because there are a lot of Republicans that ran unopposed, or against third party candidates but no Democratic Party opponents. >
  
  This is a very popular refrain, but in addition to not really making a lot of sense, it's also completely false.
  First things first. I'm counting 22 races where a Republican didn't run against a Democrat in the general. In these races, I'm counting a total of 4,080,487 votes for the Republican (there were 2 races for which I couldn't find vote totals, so I gave the Republican 200,000 votes in each, which is maybe a little high, but whatever).
  However, there are 10 elections in which a Democrat didn't run against a Republican in the general - primarily in California, where a Republican didn't advance past the primary. Democrats received 1,704,267 votes in these 10 elections.
  If you remove all of these votes - which doesn't make any sense, but whatever - we're left with 50,425,649 votes for Republicans (50.33% of the two-party total) and 49,773,046 for Democrats (49.67% of the two-party total).
  So, even accounting for uncontested races, Republicans still won more votes than Democrats in House races nationwide.
  Now to my first point - why in the world would you discount these votes? Let's pick TX-11 as an example. The incumbent won 79.7% of the vote in 2020, and then ran unopposed. So of the 151,066 votes he received, at best maybe 35,000 of them would've gone to a Democrat. Not every race is like this, but you've got to assume that many of these races would have been blowouts. They would still count very heavily toward the party running unopposed. These are real votes that got cast by real people, and discounting them doesn't make sense. Like I said above, even if you don't count them at all Republicans still won over 50%; if you were to estimate these elections realistically (anywhere from 60/40 to 80/20) Republicans would probably be sitting at 51 or 52% of the vote.
  Yes, gerrymandering. Yes, voter suppression. Yes, midterm turnout. I know all these things. But in terms solely of the votes counted in contested races, this was a just result. >
  
  They blamed Trump and his endorsed picks for the midterm losses when it was their anti-abortion 'so what if the fetus is dead, you will carry to bury' stance. 
  You know the stance that a few candidates finally wised up to and tried to back away from too late, too close to the midterms? >
  
  It was both. >
  
  Excellent news! The self-immolation continues and we have ringside seats.  What’s the quote about never interrupting your opponent while he’s making a mistake? >
  
  One would think the midterms revealed that mistake, guess not. >
  
  If there’s one thing I trust Republicans to do, it’s double down on BS and never admit fault. Why? Beats me. But they never seem content to just shoot themselves in the foot, but insist on emptying the clip too. >
  
  Seems like they are between a rock and a hard place.
  Abortion isn't a winning subject for them but if they don't constantly say "we are prolife" the mindless angry base might stay home. And they need that base to win
  And they can't start going "jk we're reasonable now" because they can't get enough moderates and again their current base will leave >
  
  But the more they double down on that, the less they can win outside of deep red areas.
  A lot can happen in 20 months, but they aren’t playing a winning strategy, and they haven’t yet stacked the deck enough that they can afford to ignore moderates and swing voters. >
  
  Yes, please double down on something with 70% opposition and even a decent amount (relatively speaking) of opposition among Republicans themselves. >
  
  signs up for early mail-in voting
  “How many times do I gotta teach you this lesson, old man?” >
  
  Until one of their mistresses or daughters gets pregnant >
  
  Oh those scenarios will be under all of the rugs, guaranteed >
  
  They didn't do a good job hiding Hershel Walker's. >
  
  And his voters couldn't have cared less.  They have completely desensitized their constituents from any matters of morality, honesty, and hypocrisy, so long as they're Republican. >
  
  
  And his voters couldn't have cared less. 
  
  Which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that pro forced birthers screaming murder and sanctity of life are liars playing a political game. They didn't care about all the abortions Walker paid for or all the women their orange god has assaulted over the years either.
  It's all a conservative game to subdue women and take away their rights and political power. I believe the republicans at some point will try to take away a woman's right to vote as well. >
  
  Evangelicals think you can do whatever you want, as long as you say you're a big jesus fan, it's all good. >
  
  Part of the problem is that Christianity is based on the idea of forgiveness, so long as you repent for your sins then it's all good and you go to heaven. Now forgiveness isn't a bad thing but it's also really easy to weaponize it into the idea that someone's past actions don't matter (unless you want them to matter). That's how they justify supporting people like Trump and Walker, the Evangelicals can justify supporting them by saying that they've repented and been forgiven even when the evidence is that they haven't. >
  
  Yep. They missed the part where Jesus was pretty clear in that you gotta actually be sorry and change your behavior. Then again, they also missed the part about caring for others. >
  
  Good luck republicans with this extremely popular position.