Red States Show the Way for Pro-Family Populism

Red States Show the Way for Pro-Family Populism

During his unsuccessful foray into California politics, the muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair used to tell audiences that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” And enough observers and pundits have enough invested in the narrative that red states only want to restrict access to abortion, and don’t care about what happens to mothers or their babies after birth, that I ful…