[onethought]

As your example you use a weird right wing wedge issue.

How about science based climate change where people think you can literally compromise on physics/math and make 2+2=5 because 4 is just too inconvenient.

Edit: (I’ll clarify: Abortion is used as a kind of hack into the religious/cultural background of Americans. It is purposefully used to divide political debate in a non rational way).

[esyir]

It's a weird left wing wedge issue too. The point of a wedge is that it cleanly divides. They're thus bipartisan, almost by definition.

[onethought]

No, because it requires religious conservatism. Which is very much in the right sphere of the political spectrum.

Take a peak outside of the US and make note of how abortion is not a wedge issue, which if you were correct should not be possible.

[esyir]

The US left aligned view on this is also beyond that of most of the eu. They've basically come to differing consensi on what limits to engage, whether they be waiting periods or time periods.the US left would despise German abortion law for instance, which requires mandatory counselling about their decision.

What I see from the US is an eternal war to drag it further, regardless of its current position. Its culture war for culture wars sake.