Re:Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
by rayiner on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:27AM
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> The counterargument is that they'll switch sides and either join the Republicans or simply caucus with them to retake the majority (eg like Tom Daschle did with Jim Jeffords). Let them.
When Tom Daschle was Senate majority leader, Democrats held both Senate seats in South Dakota. Virtually all of Democrats' economic achievements of the 20th century were built with a coalition including socially conservative midwestern and southern voters. Obamacare was passed with the support of voters that went over to Trump in 2016 over social issues. If you kick those people out of the coalition, as Democrats have been doing, you're left with a party that can't actually muster the votes to deliver on their economic promises to working class voters.
> Remember that keeping Roe v. Wade enjoyed wide public support (eg 64% according to [2]; I've seen other figures as high as 70-75%).
The majority of Americans don't understand the actual legal effect of Roe. They also support a 15-week ban on elective abortions--like the Mississippi law in Dobbs--which was prohibited under Roe. https://www.wsj.com/articles/support-for-15-week-abortion-ba....
More importantly to this conversation, a big chunk of the people who support legalized abortion are Republicans.https://news.gallup.com/poll/246278/abortion-trends-party.as.... The 2010 Democratic coalition that enacted Obamacare included about 30% folks who identify as "pro life." Continuing to kick those folks out of the coalition is a great way to do exactly what Mitch McConnell wants.
When Tom Daschle was Senate majority leader, Democrats held both Senate seats in South Dakota. Virtually all of Democrats' economic achievements of the 20th century were built with a coalition including socially conservative midwestern and southern voters. Obamacare was passed with the support of voters that went over to Trump in 2016 over social issues. If you kick those people out of the coalition, as Democrats have been doing, you're left with a party that can't actually muster the votes to deliver on their economic promises to working class voters.
> Remember that keeping Roe v. Wade enjoyed wide public support (eg 64% according to [2]; I've seen other figures as high as 70-75%).
The majority of Americans don't understand the actual legal effect of Roe. They also support a 15-week ban on elective abortions--like the Mississippi law in Dobbs--which was prohibited under Roe. https://www.wsj.com/articles/support-for-15-week-abortion-ba....
More importantly to this conversation, a big chunk of the people who support legalized abortion are Republicans. https://news.gallup.com/poll/246278/abortion-trends-party.as.... The 2010 Democratic coalition that enacted Obamacare included about 30% folks who identify as "pro life." Continuing to kick those folks out of the coalition is a great way to do exactly what Mitch McConnell wants.