As the price for their ability to remove restrictions on the power of capitalists - regulations - that defend consumers, workers, the environment, or the general public against them and throw the tax burden off the rich, the Republicans let Pence and Trump do all they can to undo the sexual revolution in the law that began with Griswold.
Griswold and the decisions flowing from it expanded the area of liberty protected by the constitution from intrusion by the state, which had been acting in service Christian clerics to forbid and punish violations of the traditional Christian sexual morality.
The same sort of clerics who during the Cold War inserted "under God" (1954) into the originally secular pledge, put the motto "in God we trust" (1956) on our coinage, and created the "National Prayer Breakfast" (1953) and bullied presidents into attending it (every one since Eisenhower),
The party that brags its chief value is liberty is willing to throw both sexual liberty and disestablishment to the wolves to do the job the plutes insist upon.
And so is Trump, in particular.
This, and guns, and racism is how the Republican Party enlists stupid people who are not plutes to aid the plutes to screw them to the wall.
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