For two decades, the moderate and reasonably sane Republicans on message boards assured us abortion would never actually be banned, that no one would be arrested and go to prison.
They assured us it was just all Kabuki theater to secure the votes of the fire and brimstone bible thumpers.
I should have realized these moderate conservatives and libertarians had been lying their fat asses off all along.
Much the same as when the lefties assured us there would be no open borders.
