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In any other country in the developed world, for example, those recent, hideous murders of youngsters in Texas would be considered a nightmarish aberration. But, in the United States, the gut-wrenching slaughter at Uvalde Elementary School was merely the latest mass homicide in that country. So great that even those politicians philosophically opposed to their country’s lenient gun laws rant and roar after a killing spree shocks the world, but ultimately acquire the spine of a jellyfish when they find themselves going head to head with the National Rifle Association. Political expediency and survival invariably trumps decency and righteousness.
But, as he did with the gun lobbyists, Trump did manage to earn the support of the Christian Right while in power by stacking the invincible Supreme Court with conservative dogmatists who ultimately did his bidding and destroyed the country’s abortion laws, thus eliminating the hard-fought rights of women to have the ultimate say in terminating pregnancy.
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