Right of Free Travel, Texas-style
Politics today is an endless cultural war. Democrats seem intent on policy issues such as infrastructure, strengthening the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, voting rights, dealing with the menace of climate change, while Republicans focus on limiting the rights of LGBTQ+ people, banning books, turning education into indoctrination – and of course, pursuing the war on women’s health by limiting reproductive choice. In her Letters from an American from 1 September (which I repost daily on Facebook and Twitter), Heather Cox Richardson writes that Meanwhile, Republicans continue to focus on ending abortion, and their determination is leading them to assert power over citizens of Republican-dominated states in a way that is commonly associated with authoritarian governments. Having won the battle over Roe v Wade in last year’s Dobb’s decision by a Trump-packed Supreme Court, the Republicans have found out (and continue finding out) that when you decide to ride a tiger