A traditional Republican's case against Dobbs

Highly recommended video from Tim Miller of the Bulwark. There are at least a couple of reasons you should watch this. First, the ads shown and discussed from the Harris campaign are among the most disturbing and provocative you've ever seen, and I mean that in the right way. They provoke entirely appropriate discomfort and anger.

Second, Miller's comments are worth listening to both for their content, and also for who Miller is, someone who, despite having gone all in on opposing Trump and the current state of the party, still views the world as a moderate Republican.

A Littleton, Colorado native, Miller started out in Republican politics as an intern working on the 1998 Colorado gubernatorial election.^[3][4] He later earned a bachelor's degree from the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs.^[5]

Miller was an Iowa staffer for John McCain in the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries, and later served as national press secretary for the Jon Huntsman 2012 presidential campaign.^[5] In his role with the Huntsman campaign, Miller was credited by Esquire for making its daily email to reporters "surprisingly hip".^[6] After the primary, Miller joined the Republican National Committee as its liaison to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.^[7]

In 2015, Miller was hired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush to be a senior adviser to his presidential exploratory committee, Right to Rise political action committee (PAC), and went on to serve as the communications director for Bush's presidential campaign.^[5][8][9] During the campaign, Miller drew notice as a "vocal critic" of Donald Trump.^[10] Following a 2016 South Carolina Republican primary debate, Miller followed Trump around the spin room heckling him until Miller was "hip-checked" by Trump campaign strategist Corey Lewandowski.^[11]

 Apologies for the formatting, but here are some of the comments that I found worth repeating. 

The essential take away here is that the anti-reproductive rights movement (calling it anti-abortion no longer provides an accurate picture) has gone to a place so dark and misogynistic that many people who consider themselves at least moderately pro-life are appalled by what they're seeing. The Harris campaign has made the smart (and I would say moral) decision to focus on the most indefensible consequences of Dobbs: victims of rape; girls so young we would consider them children; women bleeding out in emergency room parking lots.

The press has been pushing for Harris to take more positions on divisive issues. Personally I think it is both savvy and right to prioritize urgent points of agreement, and I can't think of many issues more urgent than this.