Ann Coulter used to be the scourge of liberals. The far right commentator has written untold columns and books painting Democrats as a pox upon America. Now look at her. Though she was on the Trump train for a while, she hopped off a couple years back. Now she’s one of his sharpest critics, which makes her the scourge of today’s conservatives. She’s become so sane that once again liberals cannot believe she’s the one making sense on a hot button issue.
On Tuesday Coulter weighed in on the tragic story of Kate Cox, a Texas woman who sought an exception to the state’s draconian anti-abortion laws after her fetus was diagnosed with a fatal disease. Doctors say her condition threatens her own life. Last week a district court said Cox qualified for an exception, but on Monday the Texas Supreme Court overruled that ruling. By then Cox had already left the state to get a life-saving abortion elsewhere. The court’s decision has prompted outrage, and not only from Democrats.
The prolife movement has gone from compassion for the child to cruelty to the mother (and child).
Trisomy 18 is not a condition that is compatible with life.https://t.co/L91RmsCrJq
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 12, 2023
“The prolife movement has gone from compassion for the child to cruelty to the mother (and child),” Coulter tweeted. She added that the disease, Trisomy 18, “is not a condition that is compatible with life.”
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last summer, Coulter has said something reasonable about abortions, which she’s still against. She also recognizes it as what it is: an issue that will turn voters away from Republicans. That’s what happened last year, when the much-touted “red wave,” that would hand Republicans more control over the nation, failed to materialize. They wound up only flipping the House, and not by much.
Liberals should be used to Coulter saying things that sound awful lefty, at least in the Trump era. Or maybe they’ll never get used to agreeing with Ann Coulter. Whatever the case, people still can’t get over her being the sensible conservative.
Even Ann Coulter gets it. https://t.co/6NlwVOWSOX
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) December 12, 2023
Oh man, when you’ve lost Ann Coulter…it doesn’t mean shit. Fuck her. https://t.co/4Ylqz0YoLc
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) December 12, 2023
When you’ve lost Ann Coulter on this stuff, you know you’ve truly jumped the shark. https://t.co/2i9mxZpAwR
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) December 12, 2023
If you’ve got Ann Coulter talking about compassion for women (or anyone, really), you’ve truly done something. https://t.co/IHOyWw0w49
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) December 12, 2023
When you’ve lost @AnnCoulter… https://t.co/ciAEu8kaw7
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) December 12, 2023
Ann Coulter keeps being anti-Trump, and is now being logical about abortion rights.
Trumpism is so disgusting, it’s turning Ann into a liberal
(more seriously: happy to give her credit when she uses her platform like this!) https://t.co/5MZVrDLfyB
— Avant 5 (@avant5) December 12, 2023
When even Ann Coulter is calling out Republicans for their insane abortion policies, you know it’s bad. https://t.co/sFFIUJyhU4
— Danny Blanck (@Danny_B_____) December 12, 2023
When even Ann Coulter is calling you cruel….#ForcedBirthNation https://t.co/5dy7PysU09
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) December 12, 2023
How far down the looking glass have we slipped when ANN COULTER IS THE VOICE OF REASON?!?!?! https://t.co/zhVWf0fIDm
— Rushad “Joe Biden is a Wonderful President” Thomas (@rushadthomas) December 12, 2023
I mean, if your politics are right of Ann Coulter, I assume you must be in hell?
What tf is right of Ann Coulter? pic.twitter.com/9p81vU3ciN
— Jess Piper (@piper4missouri) December 12, 2023
Others, though, pointed out Coulter’s long history of being fanatically anti-abortion, and of helping create the volcanic, intransigent rhetoric that has taken over the Republican Party.
Spare me the hot-takes saying ‘When you’ve lost Ann Coulter…’
She backed this cruelty for decades. Now, she’s pretending she wasn’t supporting it 100%. It gives them plausible deniability as the GOP continues to legislate pregnancy and contraception.
Don’t believe this bitch. https://t.co/2ZYCKR6M4B
— Claudia Lamb (@ClaudiaLamb) December 12, 2023
I would applaud Ann Coulter for her stance here, except for the fact that what’s happening in Texas is a direct outcome of the political discourse becoming crueler and more selfish—a trend that she had a major role in creating. https://t.co/2O8gdPeU5a
— BookNerdMario (@GrouchyWonk) December 12, 2023
Ann Coulter is speaking out because of political expediency (she’s seen the writing on the wall), not compassion. She lacks the latter and has worked tirelessly to promote people (“In Trump We Trust!”) that made what Texas is doing inevitable. So no credit is due for this tweet: pic.twitter.com/Bsjjfc0uNf
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) December 12, 2023
But for now, welcome to the resistance, Ann Coulter. Again. Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene will listen to her this time.
(Via Mediaite)