Not sure anything has been worse than the press’s performance on Trump’s abortion extremism. He gets covered like a moderate just because he’s a sleezeball who has never read the Bible but he’s game for the most draconian Gilead shit imaginable.
this guy?
Matthews: “Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle?”
Trump: “The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment.”
Matthews: “For the woman?”
Trump: “Yeah, there has to be some form.”
even if he walked it back because of backlash, shit is in his head.
A big facet of Trump's entire personality is having zero respect for women in general. That is not a man who gives a shit about any woman's rights. His only joy is others' humiliation. No medical emergency is going to move him. He's too turned on by the power of getting to choose that you die.
Any “moderation” Trump would claim for his abortion position would immediately become a bargaining chip for some other shitty thing he wanted. “You can have democracy or an abortion if you are about to die, not both.”
He literally said women and their doctors should go to jail for abortions and was shouted down for it by the Republicans because they recognized that even if they feel that way and that's their end goal, they can't say that shit out loud.