The thing is they have nothing else. They have no policy. If they had a health care plan it would be the ACA They don't support any ubi or anything to help families

Republicans

Have

No

Policy

They have to rely on culture wars.

Nah, they'd rather burn the US to the ground than let women and minorities be equals.

Idk how much of that is true sadly. I live in a state that is, thankfully, Democrat but 9 years ago moved to an area that is more rural. I know the majority here is voting R but over time I also realized something that shocked me more which was that a lot of the teenagers here seem to reflect the same values as there parents. I've overheard conversations with them talking about Trump, watching Tucker Carlson, and just generally siding with them. I believe this is probably the case for a lot of the same age group in Midwest states as well. Just watch videos from the youtube channel "channel 5 news" to see festivals and other events where the general consensus of younger people is to scream hate about our current president. Even my boss at work who I always knew was R was talking about his daughter buying a Trump flag who is just in high school. They also live in a rural area as well. The only positive thing that he said, that shocked me, was that he actually does hate Trump and will not vote for him due to everything going on. And here I thought it didn't matter what he did, thankfully some people can think reasonably and see the absolute horror he is.

They know this, that's why their strategy is now "full blown fascism". If they can't win democratically, then they will ignore, undermine, and destroy democracy to get what they want; which is exclusive control of all the money and all the power.

And it didn't get them anywhere. They pulled every dirty trick they could think of for this election and still lost by a wide margin.

i think this is their 2024 platform

So many dogwhistles in that screed. "abortion industry","Wealthy", "out-of-state", "special interests", "radical", "abortion on demand".

I think it's important to understand that to many of these people, it's deeply religious. They believe that they are doing God's work, and if they compromise on issues they believe are facilitated in scripture, they might end up in hell. So they choose martyrdom over cooperation. They'll gladly sacrifice democracy if they feel like democracy is going against their interpretation of God's word.

It's the same reason peace in the Middle East is so difficult and seemingly unattainable. No one budges on their religion.

I agree with them that babies' lives are worth fighting for. The problem is, I don't agree that a fetus is a baby. Alive? Sure, insomuch as a parasite is alive or cancer is alive. That we often colloquially call a fetus a baby doesn't magically make it one.

Why thank you. Proud of you as well. My wife almost missed it as she is pregnant and was exhausted and slept most of the day, but we lucked out and had half an hour left for her to go vote.

Haha, that's so funny. 80% of funding on both sides of the fight came from out of state. I will say that the pro-choice camp also spent far less on their campaigns than the anti-women campaigns.

And you're surprised? They'll do anything they think they can get away with, and they've figured out they can lie all the time about everything and get no pushback at all from the kind of people who vote Republican.

national abortion industry

What the fuck are they on? They act like there's a massively funded lobbying group like the oil industry or pharma has. This is a bunch of doctors doing $50 D&Cs and prescribing morning after pills at the free clinic.

but claiming that this was the reason for a 75% win of "Issue 1" is a pure and utter lie.

It wasn't a 75% win though, the election results are still "unofficial" but issue 1 only got 56.62% of the votes. It's a good thing the issue 1 in august failed to pass.

Let's not oversell this. OH #1 only passed 55-45. 52% turnout is far better than a normal odd-year election, but 55-45 is hardly a blowout, especially because it depended on 70-30 wins in the big cities. A huge swath of Ohio's regular voters are perfectly happy to go along with abortion restrictions, and a sizeable number of staunch pro-choicers will show up to keep Roe in the dirt. Any district that doesn't include a major metro, abortion is still a convenient wedge issue.

Republicans: "Stop calling us fascist!"

Then stop meeting the literal definition of it.