I dislike Beto about as much as a person can dislike a politician, but if voting Republican means that abortion will remain illegal in Texas there's no way I can vote for them. That applies also for all national candidates.
The true consequences of abortion restrictions have not settled in yet with the voters. But when it does opposing abortion will be even less tolerable than opposing gay marriage. This is the 21st century, and public opinion on matters of basic Constitutional rights is not what is was in the past. The gay marriage issue turned in a matter of five years or less. It went from apathy to a majority public support overnight because public values have changed.
When it sinks in that a personal right that two generations took for granted has now been criminalized a large majority, and I mean LARGE, will make it impossible for Republicans to get elected to anything. Republicans cannot win their primaries without opposing abortion rights, so they are trapped.
I think they are finished for a generation because it will take that long for the remaining Republican primary voters who zealously oppose abortion rights to fade away.
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