Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast. We knew for decades before the

overturning of Roe versus Wade that Republicans wanted to repeal abortion rights. But I recall

an argument I heard many years ago from someone ostensibly on the left about how wrong the left was to worry about

it because, after all, George W. Bush had been in office for eight years and he didn't stop

abortions. Now, I knew that that was a profoundly uninformed point at the time, but it was also

evidence that some people just don't understand

the time horizons over which these kinds of plans to dismantle cherish rights and government

programs play out. George W. Bush also proposed privatized in Social Security and didn't

succeed there either. But in both cases, groundwork was being laid

as part of a multi-decade effort that would, they hoped, pay off in the future. So don't

be surprised when they come for your earned benefit programs just as they came for the fundamental

right to bodily autonomy.

For those looking for a quick overview, the sources providing our top takes in about 50

minutes today includes Ted Ed, All In with Chris Hayes, Consider This, the PBS News Hour,

the Hartman Report, On Point, and the worst of all possible worlds.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in three sections.

Section A, Social Security, followed by Section B, General C, and Section C, Medicaid, and Health and Human Services.

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