Michelle Goldberg: “Maybe people care more about the integrity of our democracy than the pundits give them credit for.'
Abortion rights demonstrators in Washington, May 14, 2022. It turns out that voters care about abortion and democracy after all, writes New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg. Illustration by The New York Times.I’ll admit it: I let the right, and political analysts who were listening to the right, psych me out.
Because I’m an anxious person traumatized by 2016, I mistook my own sense of dread for insight and assumed the people predicting a Democratic wipeout must know something. What I should have done was listen to those monitoring the furious political energy unleashed by Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court decision stripping women of their right to bodily autonomy.
It will take a while to sort out exactly why Republicans did so much worse than expected. Maybe people care more about the integrity of our democracy than the pundits give them credit for. Maybe they were turned off by Republicans cackling over the assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband. But there seems little question that abortion was a big part of the story.
Republican Lauren Boebert of Colorado, a high-profile, anti-abortion Christian nationalist who was widely seen as a shoo-in for reelection, is currently down by several thousand votes. Her challenger, Democrat Adam Frisch, is the son of an OB-GYN who performed abortions; Frisch told me he remembers his dad receiving bomb threats.
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