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We’re still living with the punitive politics of family values. A broader, universal vision can break its vise grip.
A Save the Children rally outside the Capitol building on August 22, 2020 in St Paul, Minnesota (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Given Donald Trump’s multiple marriages, penchant for infidelity, and alleged sexual misconduct, many commentators saw his presidency as a departure from the Republican Party’s investment in family-values politics. As longtime GOP consultant Stuart Stevens told
last August, “How does the party that’s supposed to be for family values stand by while the president, the head of the Republican Party, wishes [Ghislaine Maxwell] well [when she’s] just been arrested for being at the center of an international child rape ring?” ....

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