Author Robert Busek profileAfter months of accusing Republicans of using “phony, trumped-up culture wars” to divide the electorate, the Democrats have chosen abortion, the mother of all culture war issues, as the hill on which they will fight and die in 2022.

When Politico published a draft of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, the left’s reaction to its striking down of Roe v. Wade predictably combined wailing and gnashing of teeth with crass political posturing. With uncharacteristic speed and clarity, our “devoutly Catholic” president used the draft to encourage voters to support pro-abortion candidates in the November elections and call upon Congress to codify Roe into law. …