The difference between Roe and progressive policies is that said policies are broadly popular with the electorate. Making durable, unpopular changes under minority rule is virtually impossible with our federal legislature, and the right had to finally luck out and enact them by installing enough Supreme Court justices willing to upend the system. From a long-term view, Roe wasn’t a sustained effort, or at least not a successful one until very recently. The evangelicals had been losing support on the issue every year and exploited a crack in the system that McConnell exposed in 2016.
The GOP and the conservative coalition within the Democratic Party can’t afford to allow significant progressive policy through even once because it becomes political suicide to repeal without years of propaganda and budgetary ratfucking. Obamacare is the latest example. It’s not even close to the same effort level.
A second New Deal Congress is coming within our lifetimes. The demographics say it’s inevitable (as long as we have elections, anyway). Yes, it will take work, and it starts in the primaries.
The difference between Roe and progressive policies is that said policies are broadly popular with the electorate. Making durable, unpopular changes under minority rule is virtually impossible with our federal legislature, and the right had to finally luck out and enact them by installing enough Supreme Court justices willing to upend the system. From a long-term view, Roe wasn’t a sustained effort, or at least not a successful one until very recently. The evangelicals had been losing support on the issue every year and exploited a crack in the system that McConnell exposed in 2016.
The GOP and the conservative coalition within the Democratic Party can’t afford to allow significant progressive policy through even once because it becomes political suicide to repeal without years of propaganda and budgetary ratfucking. Obamacare is the latest example. It’s not even close to the same effort level.
A second New Deal Congress is coming within our lifetimes. The demographics say it’s inevitable (as long as we have elections, anyway). Yes, it will take work, and it starts in the primaries.
Luck out? Hardly. It was the careful, planned work of decades of effort from Leonard Leo and the rest of the Federalist society weirdos
That entirely depends on how old you think I am.
I’ve been hearing this sort of thing for decades already, and I don’t see it happening.
I’ll keep voting, but I’m done holding my breath. The American People have let me down too many times.