The Right Wing’s Upcoming Target is the U.S. Constitution. Literally.

Reports indicate the GOP and its funders are actively engaged in a scheme to get a convention called in order to re-write the constitution.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readAug 2, 2022
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Considering the overturning of Roe vs. Wade alone, it should go without saying that people have been paying a significant amount of attention to what the next moves of the right wing are going to be. Whether it be overturning gay marriage, the reimplementation of sodomy laws, or taking away contraceptives, it’s difficult not to feel helpless as they systematically destroy everything people have worked so hard to achieve over the decades.

Well, thanks to a report by Grace Panetta and Brent Griffiths with Business Insider, we now know that they are literally planning a systematic, state-by-state effort to call a convention, and re-write the constitution of the United States.

The article begins by discussing Rick Santorum, stating:

“…“You take this grenade and you pull the pin, you’ve got a live piece of ammo in your hands,” Santorum, a two-time GOP presidential candidate and former CNN commentator, explained in audio of his remarks obtained by the left-leaning watchdog group the Center for Media and Democracy and shared with…

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Lauren Elizabeth

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