Democratic Party’s Catastrophic Big Tent Strategy With Abortion

The Democrats repeatedly had chances to codify Roe v Wade but they squandered them. Now that right has been taken away but an extreme Supreme Court.

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There is a fair criticism of the Democrats for not locking this statutorily in the chances they've had in the past. But also people should not forget this history. In 2004 I believe it was in the run-up to the 2004 election. It may have been after the 2004 election Hillary Clinton was one of the the the stronger voices in saying we need to be a little bit softer on abortion. We need in fact I think that's part of the reason why Obama in 07 when he was running was adamant about passing this. Because there was a move in the democratic party to sort of soften the edges. I mean we see you know and i don't I'm only picking on Hillary Clinton because she just happened to sort of do the same thing about transgender rights and a piece I don't it's unclear to me how it was presented I didn't see her complain about the way that it was written in in in your in the times. Not necessarily your paper. But financial times. I finally was in the finances. Yeah, we see this tendency of democrats and that is why you know, and fair enough I think you know when Obama got into office he said it's no longer a legislative priority. When he said it was the first thing he was going to do he didn't know there would be a financial crisis. But nevertheless, the fear of Democrats to sort of push these things that have these types of popularity is I mean that we're still stuck in this triangulation mentality with these people. Yeah I mean there's the decision not to try to codify Roe really is baffling. I mean there's the cynical explanation right that you know as long as roe isn't codified then you have you know you can say people come out and vote to donate etc etc. There might be a vested interest among sort of the various kind of like you know politicians and non-profit industrial complex and everything around not just doing this legislatively. But at the same time ostensibly you know roe is the thing that unites the democratic coalition. I mean even in 2009 you didn't quite have a filibuster-proof majority in those first few months. but you had a large majority in the house. and the number of Democrats who would have blanched from codifying roe which is nationally very popular I have to imagine is pretty small.