from indifference to sabotage

Jon Ward has written an insightful piece about America’s Supreme Court-centric culture war and what has been lost by what we have supposedly gained:

But while it’s true that conservative positions on social issues are often portrayed, inaccurately, as reflecting the views of a small but fanatical minority, under Leo’s own paradigm, the conservative alliance with Trump is unhelpful and counterproductive. It gives the right raw political power but does little to advance their arguments culturally. Trump makes no effort to be a compelling spokesman for any kind of ethically or spiritually grounded values and related policy views. He is merely a blunt instrument to help the right achieve its short-term political goals.

This is part of what I was trying to say in my piece on the main site the other week: a sustainable and strategic pro-life coalition is going to have to attack the demonic stronghold that is abortion on all fronts, and the general Republican indifference to the movement on poverty-and-families front has given way to all-out sabotage with support for Trump.