texas filibuster

[GenuineRisk]

I just don't understand what the long-term thinking is. I get the gerrymandering; they're trying to solidify GOP power in a state that is rapidly changing, demographically. But the assaults on abortion rights I just don't understand. They're not popular, they get women voters angry enough to disrupt proceedings and they motivate turnout for Democrats.

Most politicians do things from a place of "What will get me reelected." I just don't see how this motivates enough single issue voters to get someone reelected who wouldn't have been otherwise if they'd simply ignored the issue.

In a nation where one out of three women will have an abortion by the time she is 45, I think they're counting on a lot of cognitive dissonance among those women. Or that gerrymandering will protect them?