Joni Ernst’s Death Cult Politics

Another GOP Pro Life Con - Pro VOTE Is More Accurate - If That Vote Is For Her

Senator Joni Ernst has finally said the quiet part out loud, and it’s even more grotesque than we imagined.

There she was Friday morning in Parkersburg, Iowa, channeling her inner Malthus as desperate constituents begged her not to strip away their healthcare. When voters had the temerity to point out that gutting Medicaid might actually kill people, Ernst delivered a response so callous it would make Leona Helmsley squirm: “Well, we all are going to die.”

This wasn’t a slip of the tongue. This wasn’t misspeaking under pressure. This was the purest distillation of modern Republican governance: a sociopathic shrug at human suffering, delivered with the casual cruelty of someone ordering coffee.

Welcome to Joni Ernst’s America, where the only life worth protecting is the kind that can’t vote, can’t complain, and can’t show up to her town halls to inconvenience her with their pesky desire to keep breathing.

For a decade, Ernst has built her political brand on the sanctity of life — or at lea…