The problem with progressives is that many have forgotten the need to fight for the long term. Consider that the right-wing battle to overturn Roe started almost 50 years ago and the battle to curb African-American voting rights took about as long. Yet progressives are disappointed because they turned out in record numbers in a single election two years ago and don’t yet have everything they wanted?

With the end of Roe, politicians must now take responsibility for harsh new intrusions into families’ ability to plan for their future. This is not a hypothetical concern, and offering free baby clothes is not going to allay the public’s anger.

Is it better to run for president on gut instinct in a madcap, against-the-odds crusade that rewrites all the political rules, or to run in a well-worn groove with some impressive organizational support in pursuit of a political restoration? Trump 2016, or Trump 2024, or both? We’ll find out when and if the establishment frontrunner gets in the 2024 race.

The roots of Americans invoking the devil for political purposes go far deeper than the 1980s. They reach all the way back to the American Revolution. Understanding this history broadens our comprehension not just of the revolutionary era, but of how and why connections between religion and politics persist to this day in a nation in which church and state are ostensibly separated.

For once, let’s set aside political considerations. Climate change is an existential threat. Left unchallenged, the abyss would swallow us all.

That was the rather plaintive response of a man on Twitter when news broke that Kansas voters had rejected an attempt to remove the right to abortion from their state constitution. We are talking about a fire-engine-red state. It went for Donald Trump in 2016 and repeated the error in 2020.