As media hysteria over the power grab by some House Democrats threatens to divide the left, conservative leaders are warning that Donald Trump’s stance on abortion will divide his coalition.
“In recent weeks, the informal disagreement over language on abortion has become so intense that some social conservative leaders have publicly warned that a split within the Trump coalition is looming.” The Washington Post Michael Scherer and Josh Dodge report.
“Trump advisers, on the other hand, have been angered by the public pressure from anti-abortion activists, according to people familiar with internal campaign discussions,” they report. But Trump’s team is less concerned because it knows that evangelicals will support Trump no matter how he shifts on the issue. “At the same time, Trump’s allies aren’t overly concerned about platform wars, because evangelicals, who strongly oppose abortion, have remained among his most ardent supporters, even as his stance on the issue has shifted.”
Donald Trump changed his stance on abortion because it was politically convenient for him. He is betting that evangelicals will take him for granted because he overturned the Roe decision. It’s a pretty good bet because you never know where they’ll go.
The most dangerous situation for President Trump on this issue is staying at home.
seat “63% say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 36% say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.”
In other words, Trump cannot win the election if he sticks to the Republican platform’s demand for a “personal rights amendment.”
The Post reported that “Donald Trump has begun reviewing draft language of the 2024 Republican platform,” and that “anti-abortion leaders are expected to abandon the party’s decades-long call to amend the U.S. Constitution to expand protections for the personhood of the fetus,” according to several people involved in the discussions.
Another way to look at this issue is that, in addition to the obvious fact that “confused Republicans” aren’t getting the media coverage that some Democrats on the other side are getting, they’re also running away from the abortion policies that Republicans have been pushing for decades.
They are running because Roe v. Wade exposed a fundamental flaw in their reasoning and argument: if they believe, contrary to science, that abortion is “murder,” then they should not be allowed any exceptions for the life of the mother, the rape victim, or the incest victim.
The problem is that the public is appalled by the brutality of a law that would force a 10-year-old rape victim to give birth to her rapist’s baby. So the Republicans tried to soften the message without changing the platform, but it didn’t work.
Donald Trump has a lot of things, but he’s not stupid. He rode the evangelicals to the White House in 2016 and used their abortion stance, and now he’s done with them, and he knows they’re in his bag no matter how he treats them. That’s Donald Trump. He doesn’t respect who brought him to the party. The truth is he doesn’t care about abortion at all.
He was only interested in gaining power for himself.
