What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong About Abortion and Authoritarianism

If you wouldn’t trade away voting rights to win a Senate seat, don’t trade away bodily autonomy either. In 2025, it's the same fight.

How to do it: pro-choice Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear won reelection in the MAGA stronghold of Kentucky by attacking his opponent’s anti-abortion policies.

In a recent run of appearances, Ezra Klein has argued that if you’re genuinely worried about democratic backsliding, you have to be more flexible about who’s in the anti‑authoritarian coalition. He ad…