Joe Donnelly

Abortion should not be a party-political issue

It's the culture, stupid. The economy no longer governs voters' choices. When I was making videos around the US to promote one of my books, the film crew that traveled with me consisted entirely of my fellow Hispanics. ‘We hate the fat cats,’ they said, as we chatted in our common language, ‘the real-life Gordon Gekkos, and the plutocrats who evade taxes and buy votes.’ I assumed they were Democratic voters. They responded in horror. ‘We vote Republican,’ they explained, ‘for our values.’ They meant they were against gay marriage, ‘trans’ Newspeak, cancel culture and, above all, abortion. Abortion is becoming America's political litmus test. To save babies, you vote Republican. If you value ‘choice’ above ‘life’, you vote Democrat.

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