{"id":1627615,"date":"2022-08-31T06:34:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627615"},"modified":"2022-08-31T06:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:34:46","slug":"the-midterms-lesson-republicans-should-take-from-dobbs-isnt-to-back-down-but-to-fight-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-midterms-lesson-republicans-should-take-from-dobbs-isnt-to-back-down-but-to-fight-harder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midterms Lesson Republicans Should Take From Dobbs Isn\u2019t To Back Down But To Fight Harder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-midterms-lesson-republicans-should-take-from-dobbs-isnt-to-back-down-but-to-fight-harder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627615&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democrats in Washington and in the corporate press have a new talking point: that the Supreme Court\u2019s reversal of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> in June will rally flagging Democrats and cost Republicans the landslide midterm election that the GOP has been holding out for. Any Republican who lets this new narrative intimidate him into waffling on abortion (or any other issue) should remember: The point of winning elections is to be a launchpad for then winning political battles, and overturning <em>Roe<\/em> was the biggest political win on the right in a generation.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Dobbs<\/em> may end up igniting a lackluster Democrat base, it\u2019s important to remember that just because you hear it in the corporate media doesn\u2019t make it so. Like polling, the narrative is meant to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. It requires you to ignore that the economy is still in shambles and already in recession, that the Biden presidency has been marked by near-daily disasters, that historically the president\u2019s party almost always struggles in midterms, and that neither Biden nor his vice president has shown voters an ability to form a complete sentence, let alone inspire confidence. <\/p>\n<p>But even if we do ignore those important factors for a moment \u2014 even if <em>Dobbs<\/em> does shrink GOP wins in November \u2014 that doesn\u2019t make the years of conservative effort to bring about a reversal of <em>Roe<\/em> a miscalculation, at the risk of stating the obvious. Not only is the colossal victory against abortion unquantifiably worthwhile because of the lives it protects, but it\u2019s also <em>exactly<\/em> the kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/23\/the-culture-war-is-the-big-tent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">big-tent<\/a> victory that Republicans have failed to deliver for years, even when they do win midterms and congressional majorities.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, while Republicans were losing ground in Congress, the Supreme Court actually did something to restore and protect the freedoms of Americans, by reversing an unconstitutional and arbitrary act of legislating abortion law from the bench, returning that power to elected state legislatures instead.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say all of the court\u2019s decisions have been pro-freedom in recent years. But in <em>Dobbs<\/em>, the court was more successful in pushing back on the unconstitutional and authoritarian agenda of the modern political left than feckless GOP leadership in Congress has been.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when Republicans won the 2010 midterms, with an overwhelming mandate from voters to repeal Obamacare, and then those Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/09\/democrats-didnt-pass-their-toxic-spending-spree-for-midterms-but-in-spite-of-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failed<\/a> to repeal it? Or think back to Democrats\u2019 anti-Second Amendment crackdown in June, which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell couldn\u2019t wait to support.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative voters don\u2019t elect Republicans just to be congressional benchwarmers, to postpone a deluge of left-wing policies until the next election cycle (or simply to buckle to pressure and pass it anyway). Voters want people who will fight their battles for them \u2014 and one of the biggest battles of our time is the fight to protect unborn babies\u2019 right to live. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans\u2019 response shouldn\u2019t be to soften their stance on abortion and fret about midterms, as Jan. 6 Committee member Adam Kinzinger has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11154525\/Trump-GOP-Adam-Kinzinger-Republicans-House-Representatives-Senate-midterm-elections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">done<\/a>. Instead, Republicans should be galvanized by the momentous victory <em>Dobbs<\/em> was for the rights and constitutional loyalty that conservatives value. They should be inspired to rack up more cultural wins, not forestall all chance of doing so by wimping out and backtracking. Among other things, they should introduce laws recognizing the constitutional right to life, so that babies in blue states can\u2019t be ripped to pieces up to the point of birth.<\/p>\n<p>If the first half of the Biden term has shown anything, it\u2019s that Democrats are banking on Republicans being hapless seat-holders in Congress who will do little to stop their constant power grabs. The best thing for the GOP to do in preparation for November isn\u2019t to advance \u201cmoderate,\u201d establishment-accepted kinds of Republicans like Liz Cheney and Mitch McConnell, out of fear that the <em>Dobbs<\/em> victory was \u201ctoo much,\u201d but to ride the momentum from <em>Dobbs <\/em>to rack up more truly conservative wins. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. 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