'The dog that caught the car': Republicans brace for the impact of...
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Posted in r/LeopardsAteMyFace by u/Spatulars • 18,712 points and 1,599 comments

You know why we only hold power and never use it? Because using power makes enemies! When you do something, there's always going to be somebody who doesn't like it. And we don't like what you did! Now we're mad! Backlash time, baby! Finally enough people are going to be angry enough to vote and oh baby it's coming for you. And what are you gonna do about it? Make it impossible to vote? Lol. Stack all of us into one district? Lol. Infiltrate the bureaucracy with ideologues and administratively coup the government if you lose anyway? Lol. We're going to vote in numbers too big to steal. I've already filled out my mail-in ballot. You fucked up.

  • supdog [e/em/eir,ey/em]
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    2 years ago

    I saw this and I don't think it's saying what you're assuming it's saying

    Almost no political professional — Republican or Democrat — expects the court’s decision on abortion to upend the electoral landscape severely enough to keep Republicans from winning the House in November. In recent elections, abortion has not been the motivating issue that Democrats once anticipated it might be, and even polling earlier this month, when Roe was widely expected to be overturned, had abortion falling below other concerns, including jobs and the economy, as an issue of significance to voters.

    At best they are saying that democrats should fold this into an overall longer term strategy relying on backlash to overreaching Republicans.

    That there might be an upshot if Democrats politic well (🤞 lol) isn't the same thing as celebrating a victory lap for losing.