Republicans were once eager to assail Democrats on both issues. Now they have traded them in, banging away instead on immigration and against transgender rights. This was a shrewd political move, but it also reflects how far social liberalism has advanced.
After gyrating from one position to another, Donald Trump simply gave up on being a pro-life candidate. The states, he said, would settle the issue, and he didn’t give a damn how they did it. The Republican Party followed along, drastically weakening the antiabortion provisions in its platform because it recognized that opposing reproductive rights after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision was an electoral loser....
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