If you seek to change [anything] legislatively without changing hearts and minds, you risk the voters changing the legislature. — Erick Erickson
Yeah, it’s buried deep in a message that tries to conceal the fact that some pregnancies will end in either abortion or the death of the mother by blaming a culture which, in reality, only differs in how much shame is dished out and for what. But, on its own, it’s absolutely true.
And both the Autocratic Left and Autocratic Right would do well to remember this central fact of liberal democracies.