Politics & Power Quote by Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter isn’t trying to persuade you so much as to polarize you. The line hinges on a deliberately jarring analogy: taxes and abortion, fused not by policy mechanics but by visceral disgust ("grotesque procedures") and partisan branding ("supported by Democrats"). It’s culture-war jiu-jitsu: take a technical topic like taxation and drag it into the moral arena where compromise reads as weakness and nuance looks like deceit.

The construction is textbook Coulter: blunt binaries, then an accusation of euphemism. "You're for them or against them" flattens two complicated debates into a yes/no identity test. That’s the point. If taxes are treated like abortion, then tax policy stops being about distribution, growth, or public goods and becomes a marker of tribal loyalty. The follow-up - "Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them" - performs a kind of faux-common-sense logic, setting up Democrats as rhetorically slippery for refusing "tax hikes" the way they supposedly avoid saying "abortion". The subtext: Democrats know their positions are unpopular, so they hide them behind nicer words.

Context matters: Coulter’s brand is combative punditry built for cable segments and talk-radio echo. The line is engineered to be repeatable, to force opponents onto defensive terrain (arguing about phrasing rather than substance) and to galvanize conservatives by portraying Democrats as both morally suspect and linguistically dishonest. It’s less an argument than a provocation designed to turn policy into a purity contest.