• the_post_of_tom_joad [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    No, they won’t. If they wanted to, we’d a seen it, so not a thing’ll change. They are happy as pigs in shit, continuing blame others for their lack of leadership, and their messaging now and going forward will focus on how roe was overturned because “we didn’t listen to them”, that “they are the only ones defending us from the Republican onslaught”, that losing abortion was us not listening, that “they were right”.

    If it was a surprise, roe’s overturning was a welcome one, because donation money from their constituents has never been better and the process of reestablishing abortion rights can be strung out by them for decades. In those decades we’ll see no progress. We’ll lose abortion rights, state by state, while they furiously tweet for donations. I don’t forsee a national ban anytime soon.

    They are so, so happy right now we don’t even know, because their ongoing plan to radicalize the right out of existence and take their spot finally seems to be working the way they want.

    Going forward expect them to brush off the loss as “working on it” and deftly moving the conversation away from what we’ve lost and towards empty promises to protect trans peeps, the “new enemy” of the right.