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“I am a gay woman who is moderately pro-choice — I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal,” the right-wing impresario Bari Weiss told a Federalist Society gathering in 2023. “And that’s OK. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”
The assembled conservatives guffawed at hearing the quiet part out loud; in this case, the admission that tax cuts for the rich have been the glue holding the American Right together.
And yet, less than two years after Weiss’s speech, the epoxy seems less sticky.
