I’ve taken Andrew Yang to task for being an economic idiot.
But I’ll give credit where credit is due, and he said something on the topic of Abortion that is actually pretty mainstream.
https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1226150001690189825
He’s right. When you look at the polling data, the majority opinion on abortion is best described by the old Bill Clinton era mantra of “safe, legal, and rare.”
Middle America is fairly moderate on Abortion.
The Left, however, is fucking nuts. Shout Your Abortion is a real thing. Young women are encouraged to celebrate their abortions, like a baby shower, to “destigmatize” abortion. Netflix had a comedian to a musical “salute to abortion” like it was a USO show.
So Yang’s taking a position that is closer to moderate middle America than the Left’s abortion party bonanza means that he is being canceled and canceled hard.
Believe me, I want to see Yang lose. The Left driving the fewer remaining candidates to be more vocal on their support for abortion insanity to kowtow to them will be fun to watch.
Give it a week and I would put a cash-money bet on Warren pushing a policy to make “anti-maternity leave” a thing, so that young women can get a week of paid leave off for having an abortion.
I’ve come around to the opinion that the Dem Establishment will just write this year off, and let the Bernie Radicals get on with their inevitable electoral trainwreck. Then, once the dust settles, they can purge those too dumb to get with the program (mainly kickbacks from crony deals)- basically what they did following McGovern’s crash & burn in ’72.
Don’t forget that Bill Clinton’s rise to fame was that of playing the role of the Centrist alternative, and his brilliant skill at triangulation.
With that, the few smart ones in the current crop of Dem candidates would do well to also begin the process of positioning themselves in the center now.