David A. Graham
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And so that meant that they could come in on the first day and be just so ready, so organized, and so energized.
I think that gave them the chance to sort of conduct this blitzkrieg that took the courts by surprise.
It seems to have taken Congress by surprise.
And I think it took a lot of the public by surprise as well.
Oh, yes, you could spend years pushing a lot of these things.
And that is a project you can make some work on in a year.
But I think they're on a time frame of years or decades.
There are several areas where they haven't done much.
I think one is in this area of sort of pro-family policy or socially conservative policy.
We've heard these kinds of things from the right and we've seen some incremental progress on in the past, but they really had large ambitions.
I mean, they want to ban abortion entirely at the federal level.
Short of that, they want to do everything they can to limit it.
So that's withdrawing approval for Mifeprestone.
It is surveilling abortion use in states.
It is barring the mailing of these drugs under an 1873 law.
We haven't seen a lot of kind of pro-family encouraging higher birth rate stuff either.
We haven't seen the kind of labor policy that would bolster a more pro-family vision like things that J.D.