Interestingly enough, the falling poverty rate (along with accurate accounts getting out about what was actually happening behind the iron curtain) is a big part of the reason why most of our friends on the left had to stop being outright Marxists because the basis of everything they believed was proven so laughably wrong and even immoral.
I won't be that surprised if Trump appoints someone who turns out to not vote against abortion on the S. Ct. The guys who run the GOP for the most part only care about abortion as a wedge issue to get little guy Christians to vote for folks who give tax breaks to the big guys.