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From the linked counterfactuals from 2017:

>Quietly and without any fuss Ruth Bader Ginsberg has had a stroke: Pence indicates that her replacement will be a pro-life fundamentalist Christian. (Goodbye Roe v. Wade and, quite possibly, Griswold v. Connecticut.)

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.

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Predicting the supreme court would become more conservative during a conservative presidency and senate was not a hard prediction. Ginsberg was known to be in poor health, but I guess you could count that as a successful prediction.

But the other details are all wrong. There hasn't been a Protestant on the supreme court in awhile, let alone a fundamentalist.

Are you saying that Catholics can’t be pro-life fundamentalists? That’s definitely false.

Christian fundamentalism comes from the protestant tradition. Pro-life isn't limited to christian fundemantalism.

Catholic fundamentalism exists, and is remarkably similar to protestant fundamentalism despite having theoretically different theological arguments - they're the ones arguing that Pope Francis is wrong about things, and more generally they are the ones who disagree with the changes of Vatican II.

https://religionnews.com/2019/11/19/the-rise-of-fundamentali...

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