Politics

Liberals Need to Ditch the ‘Popularity’ Argument on Abortion Rights

HOW TO FIGHT BACK

Stop citing opinion polls, because pushing the will of the majority is not how liberalism is supposed to work.

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I don’t “get” liberalism. For the last 40 years, I thought I had a pretty good handle on the concept—in my high school yearbook, there’s even a photo of me holding up one end of a red-white-and-blue “Mondale-Ferraro” yard sign.

Not anymore.

Things got muddled when liberals—and others who support women’s reproductive...

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