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The War on Women meme is playing out. It worked a bit in the past - mostly when enabled by idiotic Republicans - but ran up against a few hard realities (women are actually more likely to be in favor of restricting abortion than men. Birth control, it turns out, most people know, is actually not something that will kill you if your employer doesn't provide it for free, women care about issues other than those involving a uterus, etc.), and as the rhetoric got increasingly hyperbolic, it began to backfire, as people recognized it for hysteria.
Furthermore, the presumptive Democrat candidate is Hillary. Waging a campaign with a major War on Women theme is too nakedly self-serving. Better to drop hints about "the final glass ceiling" here and there, and let some proxies just accuse whomever is scoring points against the campaign of sexism on an as-needed basis.
But if you're going to run on the "Republicans are evil meanies", platform, you need a good victim group. One that will get your base ginned up, and about which, hopefully, you can find a Republican or two to make a stupid comment / comment that can be twisted to sound stupid about.
And I think we just saw, with Indiana, a test run of that strategy.
Furthermore, the presumptive Democrat candidate is Hillary. Waging a campaign with a major War on Women theme is too nakedly self-serving. Better to drop hints about "the final glass ceiling" here and there, and let some proxies just accuse whomever is scoring points against the campaign of sexism on an as-needed basis.
But if you're going to run on the "Republicans are evil meanies", platform, you need a good victim group. One that will get your base ginned up, and about which, hopefully, you can find a Republican or two to make a stupid comment / comment that can be twisted to sound stupid about.
And I think we just saw, with Indiana, a test run of that strategy.