First up: Abortion. Well, the SCOTUS has taken up a major abortion case where a state law plainly contradicts the landmark ruling Row v Wade which recognized the right to an abortion. With its new 6/3 conservative dominance it is not inconceivable that Roeis overturned opening the door to GOP states across the nations to ban the procedure. It is also possible that instead of overturning the ruling could be gutted to the point where it scarcely matters but technically remains in force, a zombie precedent. No matter how is comes out it is likely to send blast waves through the political landscape as this decision will arrive during the heat of the 2022 midterm elections. How it effects the voters is unknown. What is clear is that turbulent times are ahead.
Second: We were lucky that Trump is an idiot. When RBG died during the final weeks of the 2020 election I feared that Trump would actually leave the seat vacant as a threat to the Republicans who dislike him and were unlikely to vote for him. ‘re-elect me or lose the seat,’ so to speak. Given his thuggish nature and that it would pressure those fence sitters to side with him it could have given him that election. Only as few tens of thousands of votes in the right places and he could have won it while being behind by 7 million votes. But Trump was far too stupid to see such a plainly obvious strategy and now he’s being criminally investigated by state and federal offices.
Third: The 2022 midterms may be the most consequential election in our times or even our history. The GOP has forsaken democracy, betrayed the precepts of the union, dishonored the memory of the people who gave their lives in service to our system of government and replaced all ideology with devotion to a single person, Trump. They have embraced the ‘big lie’, convinced millions that the election was fraudulent, and have demonstrated that nothing it beyond their amoral horizons to gain and retain power. If the GOP wins congress in 2022 it is that class that will have their hands on the levers of power the next presidential election and they will not need the prompting of a murderous traitorous mob to steal the election.
