I don’t expect any politician to speak against an issue that a majority of the public supports
This is way too simplistic and totally misunderstands the power of political leaders in democratic societies to shape public opinion. Like, the only real explanation for why public opinion on migration tanked is because Democratic lawmakers realized after 2020 that talking about ICE and CBP’s deeply institutionalized problems made Biden look bad instead of Trump, so they stopped sticking up against them when more border problems inevitably came out and started blaming those on the migrants instead and the opinions of Democratic party voters followed.
then we have the Republicans trying to ban abortion. I guess we’ll see how that works out for them
This is way too simplistic and totally misunderstands the power of political leaders in democratic societies to shape public opinion. Like, the only real explanation for why public opinion on migration tanked is because Democratic lawmakers realized after 2020 that talking about ICE and CBP’s deeply institutionalized problems made Biden look bad instead of Trump, so they stopped sticking up against them when more border problems inevitably came out and started blaming those on the migrants instead and the opinions of Democratic party voters followed.
Reproductive healthcare is more restricted than it’s ever been in my lifetime and there’s no indication that we’ll be overturning the court rulings that made that happen anytime soon. Also, all these political campaigns are sucking up all the donor dollars that reproductive healthcare funds still really need.
It won’t be overturned, but the ramifications on elections is the near term consequence.