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Susan B. Anthony List’s Marjorie Dannenfelser — who advises Trump on pro-life issues — called the election “an historic moment for the pro-life movement,” promising “the biggest executive, legislative, and judicial advances for the protection of unborn children and their mothers since Roe v. Wade was decided.”
Well, now’s the time to make sure these and other policy promises are brought to fruition, because they don’t seem to be anywhere in the current version of the first 100-day plan. Exit polling shows that religious conservatives carried Donald J.Trump by overwhelming numbers; their issues need to move to the front of the line.
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Religious conservatives who supported Trump faced a tremendous amount of calumny from others on the Right throughout the campaign. They were criticized for proving themselves to be “cheap dates,” or selling their metaphorical birthright for a bowl full of Trumpist political porridge. The first 100 days of the Trump administration are going to be critical to combatting these narratives and prove that theirs is not a weak movement.
Fr. Neuhaus made it clear to George W.Bush that Catholics and other pro-lifers would walk if the administration welched; the coalitions of social conservatives who helped elect Donald Trump to the Oval Office should keep that in mind. With Republican control of both houses of Congress, this mean huge wins for the rights of the unborn and the First Amendment at the federal level. But only if the activists who got him there make it clear that they won’t be ignored.
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Not unless those social conservative leaders use their leverage like they never have before. https://t.co/gswxiLnyPV
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) November 13, 2016
Will Donald Trump remember the social conservatives that helped carry him to the presidency? https://t.co/bwusTVWZ5K
— Conservative Review (@CR) November 13, 2016
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