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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

Framing Dobbs

 The Person Who Writes Joe Biden's Tweets just said what Josh Marshall has been saying: Give Democrats two more Senators and control of the House and they will codify Roe. Biden is not the type of pol to get out over his skis when making promises, so presumably he's gotten guys like Angus King on board.

With consumer confidence picking up, this election will be played out on social issues and the GOP keeps nominating people like Doug Mastriano. There are GOP politicians right now arguing to put women in prison for murder if they get an abortion. That is simply a toxic position to take with the electorate. Now I know there are GOP politicians who may have a more nuanced position on this, but the GOP has run reasonably successful campaigns saying all Democrats want to defund the police and put a drag queen in every classroom. 

Democrats need to stake out the position that every single Republican wants to put women in jail for having an abortion. Let Glenn Kessler fact check them all the live-long day.

The Republican strategy for November can be distilled to this: Biden wants to let dirty immigrant come in and put fentanyl in your kid's Halloween candy and then murder your car in its sleep. It's is "post-factual" and fear-based, because that's all they have. They certainly don't have a positive agenda to implement.

Run, not just on Dobbs, but as the defenders of American freedoms.

But for Chrissake, start doing this soon.

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