It’s wrong to look at last week’s events through the lens of policy. In an election year, it’s politics that matters and when you stare through those binoculars, you see a Republican party bleeding from self-inflicted wounds.
This year proved that the Oklahoma House’s turn to reform was not a permanent move to the right; they executed the U-turn many conservatives expected and feared.
Say what you want about Gov. Stitt, but he has, after reports of abuse or mistake, repeatedly and swiftly employed his authority to fire multiple agency heads and try somebody new.
Abortion must be removed from the winner-takes-all realm of constitutional law for which it was never suited and be returned to the political realm, where compromise and moderate solutions are at least possible.
The same day the U.S. Supreme Court and all of us were betrayed by people so ideologically desperate they would sacrifice both the integrity of the judicial process and their personal honor for politics, the justices unanimously agreed on the proper resolution to what others would have seen as a politically loaded controversy.