I wrote about Graham’s proposal for Politico today:

Boy, did Lindsey Graham step in it.
The South Carolina senator proposed a national restriction on abortion that has popular support and that could represent a defensible consensus GOP position.
For this, he’s being portrayed as a political incompetent who has needlessly endangered his party’s prospects in the midterms.
It’s certainly true that any hope of rallying Republicans was quickly dashed as they, once again, scattered in panic and confusion like a herd of antelope after a big cat shows up at the watering hole. But that reaction is another sign of how badly the party needs to find an incrementalist position on abortion where it can plant its flag, and then focus its fire on the vulnerabilities of the other side.