Democrats Can’t Simply Defy Abortion Ruling: Julianna Goldman (1)

Eight years ago, establishment Republicans stomached Donald Trump because he was the means to an end. As president, he followed through on his promise to appoint a conservative judiciary that achieved a decades-long goal of restricting access to abortion across the country.

The only problem is that the American public, by and large, does not share that goal. Now the Republicans’ political miscalculation is becoming clearer by the day. And Democrats shouldn’t distract from that with their own extreme rhetoric.

It was a major mistake for Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon to call on President Joe Biden and the ...