{"id":41777,"date":"2025-01-15T21:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41777"},"modified":"2025-01-15T21:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T03:10:26","slug":"is-that-a-clownfish-or-a-blue-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/15\/is-that-a-clownfish-or-a-blue-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"Is That A Clownfish Or A Blue Whale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Erickson <a href=\"https:\/\/ewerickson.substack.com\/p\/the-pro-life-movement-abandons-itself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thought<\/a> his movement was principled. Now he knows better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can\u2019t really recall the last time a major, well-funded movement in Washington simply decided to give up. The only group willing to voice concerns against Robert Kennedy, Jr. is Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. Every other pro-life group has either hitched their wagon to the pro-abortion nomination or kept silent. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m afraid we are rapidly reaching the grifter phase of the pro-life movement where they raise money off pro-life donors while doing really nothing much at all.<\/p>\n<p>If they are not willing to fight against putting a pro-abortion Democrat into the presidential line of succession of a Republican administration because they might not get invited to a party, they are useless.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41779 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?resize=289%2C211&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?w=2328&amp;ssl=1 2328w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?resize=300%2C219&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?resize=1024%2C746&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?resize=768%2C560&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?resize=1536%2C1119&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?resize=2048%2C1492&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?resize=150%2C109&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?resize=206%2C150&amp;ssl=1 206w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/PXL_20240604_152335834.jpg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a>Maybe they&#8217;re grifters, although, truth be told, the abortion issue has always been a rallying point for both sides, and those who hungered for power could climb those organizations.<\/p>\n<p>But my suspicion is that the word has gone out that either these minor organization adhere to Trump&#8217;s nominations, or donors will be notified that Trump disapproves of them, and that&#8217;ll mean the evaporation of the funds constituting the lifeblood of these organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did a deal with RFK, Jr., to get more votes. While I doubt they were pivotal, the deal was done and Trump has to follow through or he&#8217;ll damage himself in the eyes of the folks in a position to help him, to funnel money to him.<\/p>\n<p>That may even include soon-to-be Vice President Vance and the Cabinet, which may have the power to at least temporarily suspend Trump from the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the political currents motivating these organizations are a lot deeper than he suspects. Will we ever know for sure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erick Erickson thought his movement was principled. Now he knows better: I can\u2019t really recall the last time a major, well-funded movement in Washington simply decided to give up. The only group willing to voice concerns against Robert Kennedy, Jr. is Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. Every other pro-life group \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/01\/15\/is-that-a-clownfish-or-a-blue-whale\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41780,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41777\/revisions\/41780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}