The Counter-Revolution

We may be in the midst of the peak of the conservative counter-revolution, or we may be just at the beginning of it. The NYTimes reports on conservative state-level measures that have gained momentum from the national conservative victories in November. These include a South Dakota bill that would directly challenge Roe v. Wade. The hope of its authors is that a liberal or swing justice will retire (read: die) before the bill reaches the high court.

As stated before, this could be the peak - the rifts in the Republican Party could deepen with success and cause any sense of a unified agenda fall apart. On the other hand, this movement could snowball in much the same way as the Progressive movement of the early 1900's and the Civil Rights movement, which gained the momentum to pull in millions of fence-sitters. We'll have to wait and see.