Give republicans minority control over Critical Issues like abortion. And the brawl on an alabama dock that launched a thousand memes. Why is this Fight Resonating so much and will the Folding Chair Wind up in a museum . We begin tonight with donald trump obliterating norms for his political and personal gain. Norms like rooting for your country on the international stage. Call it patriotism, fandom, however you want to characterize it, we generally root for the home team when american athletes compete abroad and we are sad with them when they lose. The defeats can be soul crushing, and a lot of stomachs churned on sunday when the u. S. Soccer team lost to sweden in the womens world cup. It was an agonizing moment for the topranked womens soccer team in the world especially when soccer star Megan Rapinoe missed a crucial penalty kick contributing to the loss and then Something Weird happened. Conservatives relished americas loss, expressing a maniacal glee over their and by their, i me
and strip voters of the power that we ve had for 111 years. melissa murray, david dewitt described it as an attempt to impose minority rule and that s the case all over the country. each in kansas, the majority of republicans favor not having doctors go to prison or women go to prison for a medical procedure that s their own private business. this isn t even close. there s new cnn polling and push for more restrictions on abortion nationwide and leave the decisions to states 66%. the overturn of roe versus wade has had a negative effect. it s negatively affected women in their own states. the polling is very clear. two-thirds of americans regardless of party who do not want this. what do you make of the legal shenanigans that republicans are trying in ohio and in other states to try to force abortion
to trump especially when it comes to women so he trashed them, cheering the team s defeat claiming they lost because of wokeness, while somehow blaming biden for the whole entire thing. trump and his maga coalition specifically piled on megan rapinoe, the star athlete who has come to represent for them everything that s wrong with america, making her the latest casualty in the culture wars, and the latest example of the ethos of trumpism. trump s freakout isn t about winning or losing or even about soccer or football as everybody else in the world calls it. it s about blowing up norm, decency, as well assen stugzs that don t serve him. donald trump doesn t believe in anything, not least in fair elections. he unleashes the hounds on political opponents for not kissing his ring and just as he did when he was in the white house he is continuing to use his seemingly undiminished power over millions of americans to trash our system of justice. allow me to explain.
bans on women? joy, i think it is really important to understand here and david made the point, i think, really well that this isn t just about abortion rights. abortion rights are symptomatic of this. this is an all-out assault on democracy. we saw last year in the dobbs decision as the leader said that he was returning the issue of the states and it took real cheek for him to write that since the supreme court of the united states has done more than any institution in this country to completely distort the landscape of democracy in our country, but blessing partisan gerrymandering and allowing the rights act could be hobbled so they could be passed throughout this country. the supreme court has actively made this a less democratic country and now they ve returned abortion to the states that have less representative governments, and so we re seeing now that ohio and other red states want to channel abortion rights into their state legislatures because they know that those institutio