Roe Down, Dozens more to go

Wining is always better than losing. It is as obvious as it sounds that the Conservative Movement believes the contrary.

During the 2016 election and again four years later, Donald Trump’s Republican opponents said that conservatives in general and populists in particular should want Trump to lose, on the grounds that he would surely bring discredit on our ideas if he won.

When the Dobbs draft majority opinion was leaked, many conservatives wagged their fingers and warned, “Be careful what you wish for.” As they saw it, any pro-life victory would energize liberals going into the midterms, rescuing Democrats in a cycle when they otherwise stood to be wiped out.

Hype, that’s what we are saying. We believe winning is more important than losing. Victory gives you momentum, defeat can bring disillusionment and lethargy.

The question that Roe has overturned now isn’t What blowback will be ,, but Which crackpot Warren Court monster can we reverse?

Many pillars that support the dominance of the Left are based on a single Supreme Court decision.

Overturn Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville (19720, and cities could bring back vagrancy laws and turn back the rising tide of urban homelessness.

Overturn U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), and we could get rid of the historical aberration of birthright citizenship, which is so often taken advantage of.

Overturn Plyler v. Doe (1981), and governors would be able to keep illegal immigrants from overburdening government services like education, which they now enjoy on the same basis as the citizens who pay for those services with their tax dollars.

Overturn Griggs v. Duke Power (1971), and the “woke” bureaucrats who use civil rights law to enforce critical race theory universally would be robbed of their power. It would also strike the bloated higher education sector.

The list is endless. Dobbs showed us what was possible. It is time to dream big.

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Speaking of woke bureaucrats, Andrew Cuff did extensive investigative reporting to bring us the hidden truth about a recent episode at Saint Vincent College where professors clashed with a small but powerful clique of administrators in thrall to the latest left-wing trends, from critical race theory to Covid-19. These administrators have destroyed everything that made Saint Vincent unique, making it a school of liberal arts and Catholic education for blue-collar Pennsylvania.

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