Republican voters have shown themselves to be more modern, equitable, and nuanced than Democrats – and their own Republican red state representatives – thought.
Evidence: Kansas, where a solid majority of red state denizens just delivered an upset by voting NO on an amendment to their state constitution that would allow the legislature to outlaw abortion even in the cases of rape and incest and where the life of the mother was at stake.
The authors of this amendment wanted to turn back the clock to a pre-Roe Kansas. Instead, they unintentionally demonstrated that there exists a deep vein in the general public of shared sanity and fairness – and a willingness to break party ranks and stand up against legislation contrary to where the American Mind is presently.
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