Mothra said:
whiterock said:
4th and Inches said:
While I appreciate Trump's court appointments, overturning Roe wasn't the work of one man. It was the work of decades. That's not an excuse for anything. It's a needed perspective, in my opinion, for Republicans who seem to be permanently locked in panic mode.
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And yet, it wouldn't have happened without Trump's appointments. If HRC had won, think Roe would have been overturned?
It wouldn't have been overturned when it was. That's part of why I voted for Trump in 2016.
But a conservative judiciary became less important in 2020? What about the other things I mentioned? Nuclear war? Illegal immigration? Were those also less important in 2020?
A conservative judiciary is always important, but it was less crucial as an election issue in 2020. We knew that whoever was elected in 2016 was likely to have a major effect on the Supreme Court. In 2020, we had a conservative majority in place and were free to consider other questions about our candidate for president. Like for example...is he sane?
yet here we are with a mentally impaired president..
who will be packing the district and appellate courts with progressives.
judicial appointments are never a "less crucial" consideration.
Amen. That thought process, from a purported conservative, is simply remarkable.
Further proof that our resident NT's are unable to see the forest through the trees. They prefer the Obamas and Bidens of the world to Republican presidents. Remarkable.
a lot of people call themselves "conservative" when they mean "not liberal." And the quiet part out loud..."not conservative" either.
I have one friend in particular, like balance, votes to maintain balance. flops around in voting choices. Hates radicals, moreso on the right than the left. (No it's not JR.)
It's like he never had a statistics class. Entering a factor of 48 or 52 has almost no impact on the mean. Its' the 99 or a 1 that has the real influence on the mean.
Fact is, the radicals are the ones doing the pulling. The smart centrists (mostly Dems) realize that and use that dynamic to their advantage in moving the mean left. The dumb ones (typically Republican) fight with their base to defend the mean, thereby leaving Dems largely unchecked in moving the mean left.
never fight your base. If you win, it makes your base smaller. If you lose, well...you lose.