Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Sad but true. It doesn’t help that much of the narrative nowadays is devoted to painting any day in the past as one of immense evil. So any effort to roll back changes gets painted as “putting y’all back in chains.”
I’ve noticed lately that intramural disputes pit the Republican caucus of the legislature against the Republican governor. Another piece of evidence that those elected from small constituencies listen to constituents and those elected from large constituencies listen to donors. Not all of them, of course. The Governor of Arkansas has revealed himself to be a boob-suck-up. The Governor of Florida has not.