Wow!! Ann Coulter Gets It!

Ann Coulter Begs Conservatives to ‘Stop Pushing Strict Limits on Abortion’ (msn.com)

So, Ann Coulter now understands that frustrating the wishes of a significant majority of Americans has a downside: it costs Republicans votes.  It doesn't cost them votes where they can gerrymander the daylights out of a state (although it did cost them the "red wave" they promised themselves last year), but it costs them votes in the Senate.  It may have contributed to costing them the White House.

Although oddly, Coulter's plea to back off the anti-abortion crusade included the comment "Pro-lifers. [they're not]: WE WON.  Abortion is not a 'Constitutional right' any more."  There's a part of her that can't quite give up the idea that this failure was somehow a victory.

Someone involved in Coulter's Twitter life mentioned the Republican Party's "ineptitude at winning elections," and Coulter herself retweeted one Twitter commenter (do we call them Twits?) as having said "Serious political parties have one job -- win general elections [no mention of representing Americans].  The Republican Party is currently not a serious party, and it won't be until it kicks its Trump/MAGA habit."  It sure sounds like that was Tweeted by some Republican Twit, and it represents yet someone else who gets it.  (Although someone who still thinks the main aim of political parties is to dominate.)  And to add further insult to the self-inflicted injury, that Twit concluded with "Right now, [the Republican Party is] more of a grievance social club.  It's fun, but useless."

Seriously, Wow!!  They acknowledge they have no agenda but to whine or clutch pearls or whatever people do at grievance social clubs (and counter anything Democrats want), they're just hurting themselves, and they're doing it exactly as all addicts do it.  There's no detox, rehab, or AA for Republicans, but someone recognizes they have a habit they need to kick.  Someone, and, up to a point, Ann Coulter, realize they're hitting bottom.

But to come back to Coulter's other assertion, which is connected to assertions made by many Republicans, she still thinks she's/they've "WON" something.  Kevin McCarthy is slightly uninhibited about saying that what Republicans want is power.  And he's not at all the only one.  They want power over everyone, and most certainly over all Americans.  They have their personal agendas, from wherever they come, and they want an American government that is so massive and imposing that it will control the lives of all Americans in the image of what some Republicans personally believe.  It's hard to get less democratic than that.  That's standard issue autocracy.  That's Vladimir Putin, the Taliban, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Attila the Hun, or any of a collection of them.

Benjamin Franklin, and his comment about having given us a democracy "if [we] can keep it," indeed.  It appears we couldn't.