If Democrats get torched this election cycle— and it looks like they will—it’ll be their own doing. Weird things can happen during elections, and while we may all rejoice that the abortion antics have peaked, there was a genuine concern among the GOP operative class that the left could make 2022 an abortion referendum. There is no party least equipped to handle a nationwide social issue referendum than the GOP on abortion right now. The Dobbs decision reset the clock on the issue, and both sides can now make their pitches to voters again in the long slog toward a national consensus. Still, some folks on the GOP side are pushing things ideologically consistent with the pro-life view but politically impossible. Luckily, all of this, including the August spending bill, is in the rearview, so what do Democrats do? They double down on abortion, which no one cares about, including Democratic voters. They seem more concerned about a three-hour riot in January 2021.