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I’ve had a few people ask “oh, so is disagreeing with Gavin Newsom on trans athletes a PURITY TEST?” And yes, protecting trans people from discrimination is a vital purity test. It is pathetic and disgusting how many people who claim to be Democrats are failing it.

I try to understand these arguments but from where I’m sitting, the fascists won this election resoundingly because of Democrats purity testing people who diverged on one or two issues so hard for the last 8 years that people who were otherwise convincible Democrat voters stopped engaging with them

1. not “resoundingly” 2. the single biggest issue that drove people out of the Democratic camp, by far, was Gaza 3. trans folk are currently facing an active and focused effort to exterminate them, you’re either OK with that or you’re not, what can I say?

Gaza was going to cost the Democrats votes no matter what - if Harris broke from Biden, she would have lost a large percentage of the Jewish vote, which was largely in her favor (about 70 percent.) Her choice to continue supporting Israel was more strategic than people think.