I had often been critical of the American punditocracy’s conventional wisdom that Republicans would never “allow” Roe v Wade to be overturned on the basis that it would cost them a powerful means of motivating their voters.
That conventional wisdom, of course, was finally shattered last June when the Supreme Court actually did overturn the decision, paving the way for Republican-dominated states to pass draconian abortion bans.
As someone who grew up in the Christian Right, I always knew the drive to ban abortion among the Republican base was real and fervent, and you can only feed a monster like that for so long before it gets out of control.
