First Read: “Big, abrupt change doesn’t happen that often in this country. Yet when it does, it usually produces a political backlash for the side that’s most responsible for that change.”
“Think of the Civil Rights Era (which led to the Nixon and Reagan presidencies). Or Barack Obama and a diversifying America (which led to Trump). Or Trump’s presidency (which led to Joe Biden and a Democratic Congress).”
“But in addition to being abrupt, what makes Friday’s Supreme Court decision overturning a nationwide right to abortion especially susceptible to the political boomerang is that it’s swimming against the tide of public opinion.”
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