David Brooks is a blithering idiot.

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Roe's Birth, and Death

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views.

For liberals to "impose their views" would mean forcing conservatives to have abortions whether they want them or not. (although in the case of Brooks' own mother, this might not have been such a bad thing) It's much the same with gay marriage and most other conservative bugaboos. In NO cases are conservatives being forced to do things that are counter to their values. Their moronic claim is that the mere existence of things that are counter to their values violates their rights.