Even after the verdict against in New York, 's poll numbers continue to sink. It has become ever clearer, then, to the that abortion is the one ace they still have to play. And Trump, with his mind gloriously elsewhere, is drifting into their trap.
The former president has managed, of all things, to bring back the famous debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during another grave moment of our history—and has taken Douglas' side of the argument. Douglas' was deeply divided, North and South, on the issue of slavery. He famously said "I don't care" whether slavery is voted up or down in the new Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, as long as it's voted on by a majority of the people in a democratic way.
He was "pro-choice" on slavery. But Lincoln pointed out that his opponent had indeed reached a moral judgment. If we thought there was something morally "wrong," say, with parents abusing a child, it would be something that no parent would be free to choose to do.
When Douglas insisted that people were free to choose slavery, he was saying that slavery stood for him in the class of things "not wrong." Donald Trump said that it is a "beautiful thing" that people are free now to vote abortion up or down in the separate states. In contrast to his position in 2016, he affects now not to "care" whether unborn children are being snuffed out in large numbers in New York and other states as long as it is being done by the laws enacted by the local voters.
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