That comes from one of the most incomprehensible articles I’ve ever read. It’s by Ben Domenech and Emily Jashinsky at the Federalist. I think they may have been celebrating Youngkin’s monumental, landslide, world-changing election victory with a bit too much champagne. I couldn’t make heads nor tails out of it. However, that headline seems to be their point.
Lol. The idea that the right just discovered the culture war is hilarious. Truly unbelievable.
Their point, as far as I can tell, is that the GOP establishment has been telling them that they shouldn’t deploy these issues because they are bad for them, which is clearly untrue. I know I don’t have to spell that out. I’ll just note this one from the fairly recent past.
“Baby parts”
Behind the closed doors of the Capitol, members of the House held the first congressional hearing on Planned Parenthood’s involvement with the sale of fetal tissue. This hearing, dubbed the “Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives” by the conservative representatives behind it, was a wide-ranging discussion of the morality of abortion that Democratic lawmakers protested was more like a witch hunt than an objective discussion.
Four of the six people called to testify at Wednesday’s hearing were openly anti-abortion, and the discussion often veered into territory that left lawmakers at a loss for words.
“In our society, have we reached a point where there is an Amazon.com for baby parts, including entire babies?” Rep. Diane Black (R) asked at one point. No one knew quite how to answer.
The hearing was scheduled after a anti-abortion group created a series of videos that claimed Planned Parenthood profited off selling baby tissue — a campaign that sparked investigations into the organization across the country. According to chair Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the Tennessee Republican who led the recent congressional fight to defund Planned Parenthood, the purpose of the hearing was to discuss “ethical issues that surround procuring and selling baby body parts” — an illegal act that Planned Parenthood never participated in, according to each of the nearly 30 states that have investigated the health organization.
Although these videos have now been discredited due to their highly edited content, and two of the videographers involved have been indicted in Texas for tampering with government evidence and other crimes, GOP representatives were still eager to pursue the issue. They brought a handful of experts — the majority of which were openly anti-abortion — to talk about this unfounded crime.
Yeah, nothing “culture war” about that. Lol.
BTW: Blackburn tried to take credit for her “baby body parts” work in her recent campaign and twitter banned the ad. They relented and let it back on later. They said it was “inflammatory.” But that wasn’t the only problem. It’s also a flat out lie.