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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, February 28, 2024

Meanwhile In Gilead

 I remain convinced that the two most important issues going into November are Dobbs and January 6th. For all the intramural handwringing over Biden's age or Gaza, the reality is that he's going to be running against Trump, who might very well be in jail by then. 

Meanwhile, you have the Alabama IVF case, which has created a massive problem for so-called normie Republicans. The problem is pretty straightforward: If you believe that life begins at conception, then embryos are people, therefore the disposal of embryos is murder (or at least wrongful death). The Alabama Supreme Court decision was fucking bonkers - dripping in dominionist theology. Yet that's effectively what most Republicans are going to have to adopt as their position.

Waging war on IVF is going to be a disaster for Republicans, yet they have no choice.

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