Anyone serious about why Democrats were not able to win over the voters who should be repulsed by MAGA needs to talk to Jessica Calarco. She's the one person who punctured my Dobbs Effect theory in real time, and her research and insights are essential. My wife is loving HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER. - ThreadSky

lolgop.bsky.social • 103 days ago

Anyone serious about why Democrats were not able to win over the voters who should be repulsed by MAGA needs to talk to Jessica Calarco.

She's the one person who punctured my Dobbs Effect theory in real time, and her research and insights are essential.

My wife is loving HOLDING IT ALL TOGETHER.

Reposted from Jess Calarco

These high childcare costs are pushing mothers not only out of the workforce but also--and maybe ironically--into political conservatism. Because moms pushed out of paid work often struggle with loss of identity. And because conservative Christian moms' groups often step in to fill that void. 1/🧵

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menorman.bsky.social•103 days ago

i've said it before and i'll say it again: joe manchin & kirsten sinema refusing to go along w the expanded child tax credit for more than one year likely cost the dems their house majority in 2022 & the white house this year.

stuckinlodi.bsky.social•103 days ago

Solution is sterilization . No childcare costs, no career disruption

lolgop.bsky.social•103 days ago

go ahead!

stuckinlodi.bsky.social•103 days ago

Post menopausal now but I tried. Doctors wouldn’t do it

jrvj1971.bsky.social•103 days ago

Ms. Calarco has surely identified an element, but there's only so much you can do if a person identifies/is willing to identify as an Evangelical Christian.

My wife and I have long been agnostics, and I'm sure that even with the worst baby blues, she would not have gone into an Evangel Chris group.

kmin444.bsky.social•103 days ago

The only way into groups is if the parents allow themselves to be proselytized to. That’s part of the right wing evangelical mission. I have relatives like this.

jrvj1971.bsky.social•103 days ago

Which is fine, in that if you want to be a right-wing Evangelical Christian, be my guest.

But if you are at that point, you are pretty far down the right wing path.

kmin444.bsky.social•103 days ago

Yes, they probably are down that path already and probably would’ve voted Trump anyway.

waynencullen.bsky.social•103 days ago

Thank you for sharing. This is good. 🙏🏻

mjgmedia.bsky.social•103 days ago

Truth is, Mother Theresa did the same thing to people and had them accept her ghoulish philosophy about how suffering is "holy."

backlitkeyboard.bsky.social•103 days ago

Hoo golly.

tempus1.bsky.social•103 days ago

No. Calarco is merely restating the obvious: that stupid, uneducated, and poor people are the easiest targets for fascism. KAHRISTYANNNITY, btw, is pure fascism.

I'm so sick of hot-take 'water is wet' post-election wanking by Democrats.

po58.bsky.social•103 days ago

Or, she describes the dems lack of ability to communicate to those who needed to hear the message.

lolgop.bsky.social•103 days ago

nope, it's a systematic failure not a messaging one, as i see it

bobwestreich.bsky.social•103 days ago

Let’s spend the next four years talking to ourselves about this because finding a candidate of genuine weight and conviction is just too hard

grepomatic.bsky.social•103 days ago

📌

somanymonkeys.bsky.social•103 days ago

I'm not sure who thought Evangelical women would be motivated by Dobbs. Their numbers are declining though, so this anecdote doesn't convince me Christian mom groups swung the election.

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