Conservative Analysis of the 2023 General Elections in Pennsylvania and Across the Union

The 2023 General Elections in Pennsylvania and other States in the American Union was a disaster for Republicans, with few exceptions. As with previous elections, the GOP has been weighed down by its leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump, and by Trumpism, a populist mix of protectionism, isolationism and nativism, with tendencies in practice of dishonesty, disloyalty, corruption, authoritarianism and cruelty. Even though most Americans favor certain restrictions on abortion, the pro-life movement has been set back electorally since making a “deal with the Devil” to back someone of such low character and who is hostile to protecting innocent life in various other ways as Trump is, and allowing him to become the champion and chief spokesman of their cause, in addition to adopting an “any means necessary” strategy of deception, intimidation, illegal campaign activity and foreign interference to get him the party nomination and election to the presidency. Instead of seeing opposition to abortion as protecting the right to live of girls, whom are often targeted for abortion, and as offering women a choice to keep their babies, instead of being forced by men or by poverty to abort them, the pro-life movement has been undermined by association with Trump’s misogyny that makes it seem as if it against women’s interests. And his authoritarianism makes opposition to abortion appear as a restriction on women’s liberty instead of a defense of the most basic human right to life. As I have posted before, the pro-life movement should disassociate with Trump and Trumpism, focus not only in politics like liberals practice that seems to be based on winning elections just to appoint judges to rule in their favor, but focus more on the science of life, on love for the most vulnerable, and to continue to emphasize the support to women in difficult situations. Furthermore, they should favor more consistency in defending innocent life as a fundamental basis of freedom. The goal of the pro-life movement should be for a more loving, moral and free society, which, in turn, would be of political benefit to those who support them, which should only be a bonus, not the main goal.