Trump sold them countless, often conflicting fantasies. In 2025, he’ll face political reality. He was whoever they wanted him to be—a choose-your-own-candidate. Voters projected their wishes onto his candidacy, regardless of his stated policy program
Women are not okay. We’re furious...Trump’s margin of victory was powered by men, who voted for him by 55 percent—a few points more than went for him in 2020. Trump made gains with almost every type of man, especially younger men and Latino men.
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Being “the right kind” of progressive or feminist or socialist can easily become its own goal, rather than winning concrete victories that match the values and goals behind these labels. Unfortunately this has been a common response in recent decades
Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” None of those things are true. Recent public opinion polls reveal that Trump’s professed policy agenda is very unpopular.
From abortion rights to minimum wage hikes to legal marijuana, voters’ support for ballot issues didn’t correlate with their support for candidates.
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state. A new reality set in for ob-gyns in Texas - “The standard of care can now be construed as a felony.”
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Idaho, Kansas and Missouri in seeking to establish standing to outlaw mifepristone argue cause "a loss in potential population or potential population increase,” and that “decreased births” were inflicting “a sovereign injury to the state itself.
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