The idea that Roe (1973) kickstarted "extreme cultural polarization" implies that the 1960s was a period of cultural tranquility and comity. That's a view of history that is, depending on how charitable you are, either idiosyncratic or idiotic.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1522638122667888645 …
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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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Also Evangelicals were fine about roe at first. They freaked out when Jimmy Carter told them to desegregate their schools and built the biggest political machine the country has ever seen
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Plus, is Sullivan expecting that the Federalist Society isn’t going to try to make his marriage legally null and void and criminalize his sexual orientation? Because if he thinks that, I’ve got a bridge to sell him.
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An “elite compromise” that set America’s abortion laws at something more radical than most of *progressive* Europe where elective abortion ends at 12-14 weeks?
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In the context of American individualism (which means no state funding except under rare circumstances). So de facto abortion is harder to get in USA (for poor) than in Europe, despite formal laws. That's part of the compromise.
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it's also libertarian, a perfect embodiment of the maxim that "Nothing that requires the labor of others is a basic human right."
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to me the main problem with sullivan view is moral. not a single mention of the physical harm and suffering that will occur while democracy sorts things out again. his ema culpa once they come for ogberfell will be something tho…
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