By Elle Reynolds, The Federalist, Aug. 31, 2022
Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. …
Conservative voters don’t elect Republicans to be benchwarmers, but to rack up exactly the kind of culture war wins that Dobbs was.
Democrats in Washington and in the corporate press have a new talking point: that the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June will rally flagging Democrats and cost Republicans the landslide midterm election that the GOP has been holding out for. Any Republican who lets this new narrative intimidate him into waffling on abortion (or any other issue) should remember: The point of winning elections is to be a launchpad for then winning political battles, and overturning Roe was the biggest political win on the right in a generation. …