Yeah, everything was peaceful and civil before Roe (1973). I mean other than the protests, riots, bombing, the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, RFK, the attempted assassination of George Wallace. A real picnic before Roe.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1522638122667888645 …
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Another problem with Sullivan's view is that Roe was in fact an elite compromise of the type a conservative like Sullivan should appreciate: an attempt to co-opt liberal wing of feminism from more radical critique of patriarchy & based on appeals to individualism (privacy)
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The conservative dimensions of Roe are little understood but it came at a time when many elite conservatives (the Bushes, the Goldwaters, the Rockefellers) were in Planned Parenthood & worried about population explosion. That's why Roe was 7-2: expressed widely held elite values
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Ross has a good point here but I think the whole arc illustrates the folly of thinking getting rid of Roe will restore some lost unity. The parties have already sorted on abortion so are very different than in 1972https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1522729082357784576 …
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If USA were back in 1972, when there were many pro-life Democrats and many pro-choice Republicans, then leaving issue to politics might result in some complex compromise. But that world no longer exists. Parties have sorted on that issue, so its polarization is inevitable.
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Andrew seems to have evolved into a cautionary tale about the dangers environmental lead posed to boomers
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If anything, it was the tail end!
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This is utterly, disingenuously shameless even by Sully standards
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I wonder if he'll ever figure out that they despise him for being gay.
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Has he never heard of the 1960s?
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