This is exactly right.
My brother in law was a tank mechanic (a relatively safe job on deployment in a war zone) during the first Gulf War, and they had an incident where their base was attacked. He had to lead his guys in fighting their way to safety. I think he even earned a medal for it.
Even the paper pushers in the rear with the gear need to be able to handle themselves.
Without thinking too much about it, I'd posit a couple things.
One, they saw the legitimate grassroots groundswell of people pushing back against big government and globalism as evidenced by the Tea Party. While that movement kinda left the spotlight, the people were still out there, increasing in numbers and getting increasingly pissed/motivated, as evidenced by the support for Trump in '16. The elites had to nip it in the bud to usher in their utopia before too many people woke up. They failed in that election, and had to throw everything at the wall in '20 to "succeed".
Two, which is related to the first point, is that the "progressive" movement was so close to achieving the goals they'd been inching toward for 100 years, I think they figured it was now or never, due to the success and increasing support of Trump's policies. They couldn't let us turn the tide and shine the light on the truth of leftism.
Ah yes, the "conservative" Californians who keep voting for the same bullshit policies they ran from.
Some of them are surely conservative, but definitely not the majority.
Not saying spray painting a car is ok, but there's a reason we don't like the massive influx of Californians into (what used to be) deep red counties in our state.
Precisely. That's where so many people who argue about this lose the plot. Even many pro life people hedge and rail against 3rd trimester abortion because they think compromising will earn them a win. And to be fair, in some cases, it works out that way.
But logically, all it does is undermine their entire argument. It shifts the scope to completely arbitrary hurdles (heartbeat, viability outside the womb, etc.) instead of focusing on concrete science and putting the ball in the pro-abort's court.
Science says abortion kills a unique human being. Period. That is the premise to argue/debate from.
And it's important to take the time to digest and think on them in small doses