Just sharing a thought that I think many of us have had but maybe with a different perspective. (Big generalization statement alert)
I seriously question the sense of patriotism and or beliefs of all republicans who say vote country over party. It’s highly likely that these same people voted or will vote for trump 2 out of 3 times. The guy quickly showed how he was during the first administration and even up to he and his wife’s walk out of the White House (if memory serves me, he skipped out on greeting the Bidens). I’m really curious to know what was the thing that made these folks say enough. Furthermore, why the hell were they so ok with ALL the other shit. What’s worse though, wondering how ok they were about the Republican Party undercurrent of racism that effectively made their parties biggest policy to block Obama in all ways and do virtually nothing for the country unless it gave their party power.
Truth told, I guess you could say what I’m speaking to is a representation of the symptoms generational illness.
Like I initially said, big over generalizing thoughts.
Abortion.
What has a lot of former Trump fans shook is what the Trump administration did to abortion. A lot of yall don't realize just how many suburban white women will get abortions and their tubes tied cause they don't want baby #4. A lot of suburban white women will bring in their 15 yr old daughter for an abortion and birth control.
Hearing how docs have to let you almost die before they can treat you has large areas like Texas shook to their core.
Abortion affects EVERYONE cause it's that common. An ob/gyn will ask how many times you been pregnant vs how many live births you've had. The amount of times women will change the pregnancy number when their husband leaves the room would make your head spin.
For a lot of BGOL they think abortions are only being done to ghetto Black women that have 4 baby daddies. Cause my wife is a doc I hear and know that the sweetest nicest white women that are BGOL's dream woman has had an abortion in college when she was having fun. Or that happily married white chick that was not fucking up her promotion at work. Or that teacher that was not gonna lose her seniority working in the burbs so she can't get pregnant outside of very specific months.
Let me add a little extra. I know I said in this post that abortion is a big deal but I forgot to mention that IVF is also a big deal to a lot of these women. I'm a Black Gen X man from NYC, in my experience alone I know three women who've used IVF to have kids. I know two women who have had abortions, both of them had abortions when they were married. So that means in just my circle of women I either know or hooked up with I know five people who abortion bans would affect personally if they did not live in nyc.