Over the last couple of months, the party has set about to out-culture war the...
U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., center, leads House Democrats during an abortion rights protest in July outside the U.S. Supreme Court Building. Over the last couple of months, the party has set about to out-culture war the Republicans.Democrats have long believed — going back at least to the famous 2005 Thomas Frank book “What’s the Matter With Kansas?” — that Republicans cynically deploy cultural issues to divert attention from kitchen-table concerns.
Over the last couple of months, the party has set about to out-culture war the Republicans, using a different set of issues. As Republicans around the country desperately try to keep the focus on inflation, Democrats insist on talking about one of the most contentious issues in American politics: abortion.
It’s not just abortion. Democrats have portrayed Dobbs as a threat to a suite of “right to privacy” issues, from contraceptives to interracial marriage and same-sex marriage. The last couple of months should underline the legitimacy of culture war politics, if there was ever any doubt. Appeals to such issues are not just a Republican plot.
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