Which, in my opinion, means probably giving up on restricting most abortions at the Federal level. Because it's so personally impactful, abortion restrictions generate a lot of resistance compared to tinkering with arcane aspects of the US Code that few people ever encounter. As a minority special interest group, you can achieve a …
Which, in my opinion, means probably giving up on restricting most abortions at the Federal level. Because it's so personally impactful, abortion restrictions generate a lot of resistance compared to tinkering with arcane aspects of the US Code that few people ever encounter. As a minority special interest group, you can achieve a lot more by pursuing things that other people don't care about as much or might even agree with you on.
But I think this is going to be a tough pill to swallow for many. A lot of Christians are shocked by the "betrayal" of J.D. Vance this week. And it's a legitimate argument to say that perhaps he's compromising too far. But what's the appropriate compromise then? Because the idea that we, a minority, can't compromise at all on an issue that the majority strongly disagrees with us on seems like political suicide to no good end.
This is why the Negative World framing that Aaron has provided is so important. A lot of American Christians still think that they are the Silent Majority, the Moral Majority. As the supposed majority, they think that the only barrier to enactment of their policy preferences is the weakness of GOP politicians.
Weakness of politicians explains lack of progress on true majority preferences, e.g. less immigration. But not on others, e.g. abortion, where Christians are out of touch with what the majority preferences are in this country.
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Which, in my opinion, means probably giving up on restricting most abortions at the Federal level. Because it's so personally impactful, abortion restrictions generate a lot of resistance compared to tinkering with arcane aspects of the US Code that few people ever encounter. As a minority special interest group, you can achieve a lot more by pursuing things that other people don't care about as much or might even agree with you on.
But I think this is going to be a tough pill to swallow for many. A lot of Christians are shocked by the "betrayal" of J.D. Vance this week. And it's a legitimate argument to say that perhaps he's compromising too far. But what's the appropriate compromise then? Because the idea that we, a minority, can't compromise at all on an issue that the majority strongly disagrees with us on seems like political suicide to no good end.
This is why the Negative World framing that Aaron has provided is so important. A lot of American Christians still think that they are the Silent Majority, the Moral Majority. As the supposed majority, they think that the only barrier to enactment of their policy preferences is the weakness of GOP politicians.
Weakness of politicians explains lack of progress on true majority preferences, e.g. less immigration. But not on others, e.g. abortion, where Christians are out of touch with what the majority preferences are in this country.