So you win the primary and worry about tomorrow when it comes. Growth and development: The 'Ritchie Revival' is so on - and way ahead of schedule You don’t win a primary without them, so there’s no off ramp on the road to fanaticism. The 25% of Americans who still identify as Republican is dominated by the far-right, which is pretty much okie dokie with killing women who have the temerity to make decisions about their own health. Why? The easy answer is that they have no choice. After each electoral OD they go right back to the fentanyl. They can sniff a winning or losing issue a mile away and pre-position themselves to take advantage - or at least control the damage. Of all the skills politicians have, the most enduring is a reptilian instinct for survival. And DeSantis, you would think, is bright enough to understand that in 2024 a radical stand on abortion will be suicide. You don’t need to be a political scientist to know that the day a young woman is slaughtered for having an abortion, the Republican Party will die along with her. Some lawmakers in South Carolina want to go so far as to make abortion punishable by death. In Florida, governor and presumed presidential candidate Ron DeSantis - already viewed as so cold and unfeeling that he would “unplug your life support system to charge his cell phone” (and those are his supporters talking) - is expected to sign legislation banning abortion at six weeks, before many women know they’re pregnant. Even after the abortion issue cost the GOP its red wave in November, and even after every election with even a whiff of an abortion element clearly demonstrated its toxicity to conservatives, the Republican Central Committee was still taking the whip to state legislatures, urging them to pass measures even stricter than the ones already on the books.
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