Trump delivers dystopia

The greatest obstacle that Donald Trump faces in his bid to return to power is the greatest "achievement" of his first term - overturning the federal right to an abortion. In delivering the wish of the hardcore ideologues who turned his amoral messianism into a broader assault on rights and decency, Trump turned an abstract argument into a harsh reality for the people of the United States. The "right to life" of the fetus beat out women's "right to choose" how to live their lives, forcing a major part of the population into a state of infantile dependence on the whims of state majorities most often shaped by cynical objectives. 

As this "triumph of life" in favor of abstinence or forced delivery of pregnancies is uncoupled from any essential concern for the wellbeing of mothers and children (beyond incessant pontificating on mortality and duties) the darker objective of...