Ramped-up rhetoric against former President Donald Trump has one state readying stockpiles of a leftist staple for “resistance” should the GOP leader return to the White House.
“If there was another Trump administration, it’ll get us through.”
In a vile Venn diagram sure to delight Vice President Kamala Harris, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) meshed fearmongering, baby murder, and prepping to create a stockpile in the event of a pro-life Republican administration.
His plan, which began when FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine made it to the Supreme Court, involved ordering an ample supply of the abortifacient Mifepristone in case the decision came down contrary to the opinion that saw a unanimous agreement that doctors did not have standing against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which had rolled back safety regulations.
In speaking with the New York Times for a piece headlined, “The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started,” Inslee detailed, “We have it physically in the state of Washington, which could stop him and his anti-choice forces from prohibiting its distribution.”
“The Democratic governor of Washington State, Jay Inslee, said he had secured a large enough supply of Mifepristone pills to preserve access for women in his state through a second Trump administration. The supply is locked away at a state warehouse,” wrote the newspaper.
“It has a life span of five or six years. If there was another Trump administration, it’ll get us through,” added the governor who cautioned, “I think from every measure the danger has increased from his first term.”
Despite his responsibility for naming three judges to the Supreme Court that had overturned Roe v. Wade as part of the opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, as well as his own statements that the issue of legislating abortion should be left up to the states, the need to both demonize the conservative high court and instill panic over so-called “reproductive rights” meant a heavy hand in characterizing Trump as an authoritarian tyrant.
“What we’re staring down is extremely dark,” contended Joanna Lydgate, chief executive of the States United Democracy Center, as she went on to tell the Times, “Trump has made clear that he’ll disregard the law and test the limits of our system.”
The newspaper’s own fearmongering has them compiling out-of-context positions from the GOP leader, carefully phrased to heighten the “orange man bad” messaging for Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers.
“If Mr. Trump returns to power, he is openly planning to impose radical changes — many with authoritarian overtones,” read the Times piece. “Those plans include using the Justice Department to take revenge on his adversaries, sending federal troops into Democratic cities, carrying out mass deportations, building huge camps to hold immigrant detainees, making it easier to fire civil servants and replace them with loyalists, and expanding and centralizing executive power.”
“He is no normal candidate,” added Protect Democracy Executive Director Ian Bassin, “this is no normal election, and these are no normal preparations for merely coming out on the wrong side of a national referendum on policy choices.”
Along with Washington, the Times indicated that the governors of California, Massachusetts, New York, and Oregon had also built up a stockpile of Mifepristone should the pro-life movement secure a win at the federal level to curb the distribution be it through a congressional act or utilizing a 19th-century morality law that would criminalize its transportation over state lines.
In addition to planning on the abortion front, the newspaper pointed out that Democracy Forward, a group that had brought legal challenges throughout the Trump administration, had “developed a 15-page threat matrix that covers issues including abortion, health care, climate, civil rights, environmental protections, immigration and the ‘weaponization of government,’” and has already begun drafting future legal challenges to file against Trump if the need arises.
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Author: Kevin Haggerty
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