Progressives began to flee into the forest when Kamala Harris lost last November, and for now they need to stay there. Live in tents, wear animal hides for warmth, bathe in rivers, eat raw game and wild berries
From Andrew Sullivan‘s “How Utterly Lost Is The Left?” (10.3.25):
Ezra Klein to Ta-Nehisi Coates: “In losing as badly as we have, we have imperiled trans people terribly…we’ve just begun to lose that argument terribly…and that has put people in real danger”
“‘[Because] a huge amount of the country, a majority of the country, believes things about trans people, about what policy should be toward trans people, about what language is acceptable to trans people, that we would see as fundamentally and morally wrong.’
Sullivan: “Bingo. Behind the rhetoric, the woke mindset still reigns.
“And let’s look at what Americans actually believe ‘about what policy should be toward trans people’: there are big majorities for allowing trans adults to transition to the sex they want, and for banning discrimination against them, which is now the law of the land, thanks to a Trump nominee. How is that ‘fundamentally and morally wrong’?
“According to Klein, it’s because even bigger majorities (a) oppose sex changes for children, (b) don’t want biological men competing against women in sports, and (c) believe that being male or female is a function of biology, not something entirely in your head.
“Disagree if you want, but why is this ‘fundamentally and morally wrong’? It just isn’t. Nor is it ‘fundamentally and morally wrong’ to undo the unprecedentedly reckless immigration policies of Biden and Boris.
“We’re not stupid. No amount of fake rhetorical moves to the center will work. When very basic things that most human beings take for granted — that foreigners are not citizens and citizens come first, that men are not women, that children are not adults — are deemed fundamentally immoral in one political party, that party deserves to lose.
“And they will.”