The political war in the US ended early in Obama's term. http://www.pewforum.org/2016/05/12/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/ … And IANAL but seems very likely SC would smash the order.
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Why? He has house and senate?
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(i) Supreme Court would probably kill it, so no practical effect; (ii) that part of the culture war basically over in the US
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Even if the SC kills it he's still there. Does the other side know that the war is over? Right to discriminate still sought
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there are some rearguard skirmishes--religious rights, etc--but the rumored EO would permit discrimination by government agencies
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here's the polling; basically only Rs would be supportive of massive retrenchment, and not all of them http://www.pewforum.org/2016/05/12/changing-attitudes-on-gay-marriage/ …
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If it happens I hope he takes down a big chunk of the GOP with him, because this is something the party brass lead Trump on
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yeah they'd have it coming. BUT just announced such an EO "isn't the plan at this time", seehttps://twitter.com/MaryEmilyOHara/status/826193502975488006 …
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I tried to find an actual video of that quote (for context & tone) but couldn't. Just this … https://www.bustle.com/p/anti-lgbtq-executive-order-from-donald-trump-is-reportedly-in-the-works-34221 …
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if I can do inference w/ 6 Townhall commenters, seems even active Right is at least partly mellowing out about LGBT issues
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GOP leadership is out-of-step; Trump team is both incompetent & has No-Fucks attitude so who knows?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gop-lgbt-platform_us_5790f273e4b0bdddc4d3718e …
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… Maybe I should say "chaotic" rather than "incompetent."
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I wonder if it's partly kabuki. Eg--I don't recall any national GOP support for Roy Moore? But who knows, everything's nuts
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