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“People, and particularly women, tend to kvetch and converse and complain about what offends them, and then they vote according to what affects them,” she said.

Indeed, the very word “Israel,” which they avoid using on their Instagram posts, may be the “Zionist language” that most offends them.

But as the solicitor general repeatedly pointed out, under federal law, no doctor is required to perform abortions or prescribe medication that offends their beliefs.

“This act of violence against already traumatized citizens offends our common humanity,” he said.

The former president is instead doubling down on often-incendiary rhetoric that offends wide swaths of voters, seeming to be doing little to rein in his most irascible and oftentimes self-defeating instincts.