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Trump appears to actually regret the overturning of Roe v Wade: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/politics/abortion-ruling-trump.html https://www.nytimes.co
by skissane 2y ago
Trump appears to actually regret the overturning of Roe v Wade: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/politics/abortion-ruling-trump.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/us/politics/abortion-ruli...
Trump isn't ideologically opposed to abortion rights. He just gave the conservative base what they wanted, it appears without fully thinking through the consequences. And then when he was hit with those consequences, he discovered he didn't like them.
And now he's ripping the national abortion ban out of the GOP platform, and pro-lifers are upset, but they just have to take it, because they've got no one else to turn to: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/09/abortion-ban-gop-rnc-platform https://www.axios.com/2024/07/09/abortion-ban-gop-rnc-platfo...
> Point is, he took part by taking advice from the very people that laid out Project 2025 and he will again - it's a prepacked hit the ground running scheme to solve many of the gripes Trump had last time around.
I agree he's probably going to do some of the things they are asking. Something like making it easier to fire federal bureaucrats who are trying to oppose his agenda from within – I can see why that would appeal to him. But other stuff in Project 2025 probably doesn't.
Also, having very briefly skim-read Project 2025, much it just sounds like a return to the policies of the Trump I or Bush Jr administrations on various issues (e.g. reinstating various abortion-related funding bans which the Biden administration reversed). Which is the typical yo-yo of American public policy – a lot of stuff gets reversed continuously depending on which party is in power.