Roe reversal not looking like a positive for Dems

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Just how bad are the midterm prospects for Democrats? So bad, Politico reports, that they’re openly acknowledging that they can only offer “political theater” to supporters on abortion — despite controlling the presidency and both chambers of Congress. The impotence and strategic incompetence of Joe Biden and his team may alienate younger voters even more on this issue that Democrats believed would deliver them from a red-wave humiliation in November:

A debate is raging inside the Democratic Party about whether it’s giving its base — especially those under 30, the generation that most strongly supports abortion rights — enough motivation to keep voting for the party, as federal Democrats struggle to meaningfully push back against the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

The fear is that an already deflated Democratic base won’t show up in November, particularly the youngest voters, who smashed participation records in the last two elections and backed President Joe Biden by a 25-point margin in 2020. Some Democrats stress that the Biden administration and Congress need to do more to show their rage — and willingness to take significant action — to mirror the passion seen among young people, three-quarters of whom support abortion being generally legal.

Despite almost two months of prep time thanks to the leak from the Supreme Court, Biden and his team are only now spitballing on policy responses to the Dobbs decision. The failure goes back even farther than that, however. The direction of the court seemed clear during oral arguments in Dobbs in December. Even the ultimately reluctant Chief Justice John Roberts wondered how the US got into a position where we had the same abortion policy as North Korea and China, a clear signal that something would change as a result of taking this direct challenge to Roe.

Instead of preparing for what appeared inevitable, Biden and his team dropped the ball. That includes Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi too, especially Schumer, whose first instinct was to offer a nonsense bill that made all abortions legal until the moment of birth and stripped out conscience rights of providers, a position that appeals to about 15-20% of the electorate. Now all they can do is performance art, and admittedly so....

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It was going to be a bad year for the Dems anyway and while abortion is a passionate issue for many on the left, it is unlikely that they constitute a majority.   I think the majority are eager to vote against Democrats after the conduct of Biden, Pelosi, and Schumer.