TRUMP AND THE ROE DECISION. There s a debate among some on the right about former President Donald Trump and the Supreme Court s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Does Trump deserve any credit for what happened?
Cynthia Tucker: No more pretending for the GOP
Cynthia Tucker
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You may have been taught in middle school that a fundamental tenet of democracy is that every citizen has the right to vote. That right is the foundation of every Westernized democratic state.
You may have learned that the Founding Fathers didn’t believe in universal suffrage but that the United States has slowly expanded its democratic ideals to include women, people of color, the poor, the marginalized. You may even believe that America’s expanding democratic ideals are the reason that we can claim to be a model for the rest of the world that “shining city on a hill.”