Even Trump’s Excuses Are Stale

Donald Trump’s blaming of pro-lifers and “the ‘abortion issue’” for 2022 Republican failures is a tepid effort to shift blame away from his own poor endorsements of candidates who, as Ramesh notes,  managed the issue badly. It is also not just predictable but predicted. In September, I enumerated the people and groups most likely to argue that any Republican underperformance should be blamed on pro-lifers for expecting the party to stand for the unborn. Among those I listed:

Donald Trump and his die-hard defenders. Some of these folks are quite pro-life, and some are not; but...