How a New Class of Republicans Could Push America to the Right

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Beyond elections and voting issues, these Trump-aligned candidates could shape the country’s policies on abortion, climate change, same-sex marriage and much more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/us/politics/trump-republicans-abortion-climate-marriage.html

https://archive.ph/PKCIz


Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for Senate in Arizona, has supported a federal “personhood” law that would establish that foetuses are people.

Much of the attention paid to Donald Trump’s favorite candidates running in the midterms has focused — rightly! — on their support for relitigating the 2020 election. (Which, for those still unsure, was not stolen.) But across a range of policy issues, including abortion, climate change, same-sex marriage and education, Trump’s MAGA warriors have taken positions that put them on the fringes of the Republican Party — let alone the nation as a whole. The usual caveats apply: Candidates often say things to win a primary that they then jettison or downplay when facing general-election voters. But the nature of political partisanship in America has changed over the last decade or so, raising doubts about whether that conventional wisdom still holds. If they are elected in November, the Trump crowd could shove American politics sharply rightward. Let’s take a look:

Abortion

Nowhere is the starkness of the these candidates’ positions more evident than on abortion, which has become a much more urgent litmus test on the right since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Kari Lake, the Republican nominee for governor of Arizona, has said she supports enacting a “carbon copy” of the Texas abortion law in her state. That law does not include exceptions for incest or rape. It also contains an unusual provision that was meant to work around Roe v. Wade before the decision was thrown out in June: Anyone can report someone violating the law and claim a $10,000 bounty from the state.

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Blake Masters, who won the G.O.P. nomination for Senate in Arizona, has supported a federal “personhood” law that would establish that foetuses are people. He has also raised questions about whether Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court decision granting couples the federal right to use contraception, was correctly decided — but he does not support a ban on contraception. The list goes on: In Georgia, Herschel Walker, the party’s nominee for Senate, has told reporters, “There’s not a national ban on abortion right now, and I think that’s a problem.” Doug Mastriano, who is running for governor of Pennsylvania, introduced a foetal heartbeat bill as a state senator. Again, the bill contained no exceptions for incest or rape.

Climate change

Skepticism of the human impact on the planet’s climate abounds, despite mounting scientific evidence that severe flooding, rising global temperatures, droughts and volatile weather patterns have already arrived. Mastriano, for instance, has called climate change a “theory” based on “pop science.” Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, has leaned on his background as a doctor to adopt a markedly unscientific pro-carbon position. The “ideology that carbon is bad” is “a lie,” Oz said during a forum among primary candidates in Erie in March. “Carbon dioxide, my friends, is 0.04 percent of our air. That’s not the problem.” Asked about the Green New Deal during a Georgia campaign event in mid-July, Walker expounded on his own theory about global wind currents that even Fox News found “head scratching.”


Herschel Walker, who is challenging Senator Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, in Georgia, has put forward dubious theories on climate change.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Golden opportunities for

Russian language instructors coming.

And Undertakers and other funeral professionals.

[LogicFirst]

2. Better headline

HOW THIS NEW CLASS OF REPUBLICANS WILL PUSH AMERICA TO FASCISM.

[dalton99a]

3. The trashing of America by Trump trash

[Demsrule86]

4. Not going to happen. We will beat them like a drum...

[LenaBaby61]

7. I guess these fools don't know what happened in DEEP Red Kansas and Nebraska.

As it relates to murdering the Mother to save a fetus that they don't give a shit about once it turns into a child. Yes, the NO to all forms of contraception, pedio's, perverts, groomers, & forcing little girls to have their rapist's babies Party.

[Elessar Zappa]

5. I'm actually not that worried about them.

I think they’re really overplaying their hand and that people’s eyes are being opened to their extremist agenda.

[LenaBaby61]

6. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[betsuni]

10. Agree. They went from being a post-policy party, which worked for them, to

the extremist nuts actually passing their policy goals, which won't work for them.

[alittlelark]

8. 27 +/- % of our country is brainwashed and/or STOOOOPID

It is up to 'WE The SANE People' to place the stooopid where they belong. Trash pickup here is on Wednesday.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. The radicalized Republican party is coming for your rights and your democracy.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!