{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "See a lot of people being like \"take a page from right/Republican anti-abortion activists, who made bold demands and saw...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/688076447957614593/", "html": "<p>See a lot of people being like &ldquo;take a page from right/Republican anti-abortion activists, who made bold demands and saw victory!&rdquo; but I think that overlooks that adopting the abortion issue was a way of pulling <i>realignment</i> for the GOP</p><p>Like, in co-opting Catholic <b>and</b> evangelical church structures it offered an established base both in the &ldquo;white ethnic&rdquo; industrial north and among the emerging white Southern middle class (this latter just as racial issues and the alignment of enfranchised Blacks with the Democratic Party offered a chance to crack the one-party &ldquo;Solid South&rdquo;), while encouraging unity across this confessional divide, whereas earlier religious politics aggravated it.</p><p>Like, that&rsquo;s a pretty special case of things lining up right, as is the loudest abortion-rights types are Democrats already, I don&rsquo;t see servicing existing constituencies in ways that brings no additional margin playing out the same</p>"}