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FERN MCBRIDE (NYC)'s avatar

HOW ROE DIED is Hawk's Eye View of the cause of death. Rahm Emmanuel was a lead perpetrator. His stupidity in firing Howard Dean, DNC chairman and creator of the Fifty State Strategy was major. I would add that the Democratic Party deserves as much shame for this as he does. It didn't protect Dean or follow the Fifty State Strategy. How is the party doing in rural counties, in Red and Purple states? Emmanuel had a concentrate on the winnable states strategy for the 2010 midterms. How did that turn out? Read Hawk's Eye View if you want to weep some more. This is a limb by limb, vein by vein autopsy. I don't think it is solely about the death of one of our constitutional rights to privacy. As TC has written, there is more to come. What about a national ban on abortion? I will not count the losses ahead... let's count instead the millions upon millions of us that will mobilize. We saved the Affordable Care Act; how about saving the USA from the 6 and that cadre with plans to rule our country in the coming Dark Ages, USA?

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Mim Eisenberg (NYer now in GA)'s avatar

Thanks for the step-by-step exposition of how we got to this miserable day and for laying part of the blame on Rahm Emmanuel and Obama for not recognizing the progression of the movement conservatives.

I must voice my disappointment, too, in Biden for holding too long onto the hope that his "friends" across the aisle would work with him. McConnell would not and will not let that happen unless it inures to his personal benefit. Could Biden have foreseen that Roe v. Wade was on its last legs and have done anything to prevent Dobbs v. Jackson?

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