There's an important lesson to take from the 49-year struggle to overturn the Roe v. Wade abortion decision.
In 1973, the Supreme Court looked and looked and looked closely at the 18th century document known as the Constitution. And, by golly, that revered institution found within it a guaranteed right to abortion. Members had especially acute hindsight.
The important lesson is not to overreach the collective will of Americans because that will cause years of angst, argument, even violence.
Now, fast-forward to 2015. In an historic legal and cultural moment for the United States, the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples, regardless of where they live, possess the same legal right to marry as different-sex couples.
Do you remember all the violence and non-stop protests that continue over that unprecedented decision?
No, you don't. There was none of that. Some people disagreed, but the ruling glided into widespread acceptance because Americans collectively had pretty much come to the same conclusion by then.
So, the Court was, in the main, merely ratifying that consensus in law.
The Court's abortion decision two years ago said it was up to the individual states to restrict or permit the gruesome end-of-pregnancy operation.
Now, Donald Trump has said that is his position, too, that there should not be a one-size-fits-all policy on abortion in the form of a national ban. That is basically the same states-rights position that the Founding Fathers sought so hard to enshrine across the new government at the very beginning of our national history.
And it has also been the Republican Party's position for all these years.
Some pro-lifers want all or nothing. Now, even Trump is signaling a willingness to take the win and move on to other matters.
Media is portraying Trump's policy as "threading the needle." Like the Court did in recognizing reality. That's what we discuss in this week's audio commentary.
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Last week's audio commentary was quite well-received. How You Know Joe Biden's Secret Handlers Have Turned Desperate.
I won't spoil it for those about to listen.
There are other signs of desperation too. Joe Biden seems to be yelling more in public these days, probably because fewer people are buying into the greatness of Bidenomics as the inflation he launched is stubbornly hanging around.
This week, Biden also proclaimed that Donald Trump's policies in a renewed presidency "would kill millions of Americans."
Are Democrats really going to stick with this shuffling time bomb?
This week's column has perhaps the dumbest headline I've ever written.
It's really about Joe Biden's term-long klutziness and his stunning inability to express a coherent message in incident after incident. Worse is the fact that his disastrous decisions and policies are so consistently bad and damaging to the country he swore to protect that they must be seen for what they are: intentional.
"One day down the road, hopefully, historians will pry open and pump out the entire septic tank of truth about No. 46’s reign of error."
