To be fair to the non-MAGA GOP, it’s hard to get too worked up about a war in Europe, or attempted coups in DC, when there are immigrants and trans kids to demonize. The Paul Ryans are going to keep voting R, and the John Boltons will keep voting for any non-Trump R. And they don’t need get their hands dirty by physically eradicating tra…
To be fair to the non-MAGA GOP, it’s hard to get too worked up about a war in Europe, or attempted coups in DC, when there are immigrants and trans kids to demonize. The Paul Ryans are going to keep voting R, and the John Boltons will keep voting for any non-Trump R.
And they don’t need get their hands dirty by physically eradicating trans folks. Given the suicide statistics, if they can make things as miserable as possible for faceless trans people and their families, the problem might take care of itself. On this front, there’s certainly room to improve at The Bulwark, which seems too often to throw trans folks under the bus in burnishing its anti-Woke bona fides. (It was refreshing to hear it acknowledged in one of the podcasts yesterday that there are, in fact, kids who know they’re trans and families and health professionals who want to support them; and that the GOP’s anti-trans agenda causes damage beyond merely infringing on the 1st Amendment.)
The good news is that in 20 years, the GOPs trans bashing will be as toxic as gay bashing is today. The bad news is that it will take 20 years, that they will try to preserve as much as possible by putting a religious wrapper around it, and that immigrant bashing will stay evergreen.
To be fair to the non-MAGA GOP, it’s hard to get too worked up about a war in Europe, or attempted coups in DC, when there are immigrants and trans kids to demonize. The Paul Ryans are going to keep voting R, and the John Boltons will keep voting for any non-Trump R.
And they don’t need get their hands dirty by physically eradicating trans folks. Given the suicide statistics, if they can make things as miserable as possible for faceless trans people and their families, the problem might take care of itself. On this front, there’s certainly room to improve at The Bulwark, which seems too often to throw trans folks under the bus in burnishing its anti-Woke bona fides. (It was refreshing to hear it acknowledged in one of the podcasts yesterday that there are, in fact, kids who know they’re trans and families and health professionals who want to support them; and that the GOP’s anti-trans agenda causes damage beyond merely infringing on the 1st Amendment.)
The good news is that in 20 years, the GOPs trans bashing will be as toxic as gay bashing is today. The bad news is that it will take 20 years, that they will try to preserve as much as possible by putting a religious wrapper around it, and that immigrant bashing will stay evergreen.