I guess. However, virtually every Ted Cruz add I saw went:
Agreed, but I do think it was effective because of all the prejudice against transgenders. To be honest if I were transgender I would be terrified right now. There is no doubt in my mind that Republicans are going to ramp up their attacks on transgenders, and will try to use that as a wedge issue to go after the entire LGBTQ community, at both the federal and state levels in states they control.
Vance already gave that away with his "normal gays" comment - we (gay guys) are boring old news. They want to demonize trans folks in bathrooms and sports. That's their new boogeyman because no one cares about gays and gay marriage.
It feels like they tried to mostly take the "refuse to engage at all on it" approach this cycle and they got hammered on this issue. Especially with the one video that did exist where Kamala advocated for the taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners.
No, what matters is
Yeah, Trump voters can say it's about inflation and the economy all they want, and it may have been for some, but I have no doubt that the main driver of Trump voters was the culture wars. Cutting taxes and inflation isn't what gets Trumpers fired up and out of the bed in the mornings - it's culture war issues, especially anything dealing with the LGBTQ community and women's rights and promoting diversity. They simply hate all that with a passion, plain and simple.
Which started in 2018 during Trump's term.
But it works.
What are you talking about? You have no idea who I voted for.
Yep. There were some conservatives on here predicting violence from "the left" if Trump won, and I haven't seen anything anywhere. To the contrary, I fear that the more common response from liberals will be to simply give up on politics and quit caring altogether. I've heard that from a great many liberals, and frankly that's how I feel myself. If this is what most Americans really want - and it's clear that it is - just let them have it, and suffer the consequences. I feel terrible for minorities and poor people who are going to suffer, but given that liberals no longer have any power to stop Trumpers from doing whatever the hell they want, let them do what they want and see what happens.
It's the immovable object vs irresistible force. It seems like there is a serious lack of enthusiasm for Kamala... but you'd think that the fear of Trump would drive everyone to vote as it did in 2020.
But I do think they care about gays and gay marriage, and I think they'll use attacks on transgenders as a wedge to attack the entire LGBTQ community. It's already happened in Florida, where banning discussions of transgenders in elementary schools very quickly morphed into banning discussions on LGBTQ topics at all, right up through high school.
I don't really blame the media for being upset. They tried to tell people. You can make all the complaints you want about tone, elitism, fact-checking, etc, but conservatives have relentlessly sought to undermine the media for years not because any of that, but because they didn't want to be held accountable for telling lies. They succeeded, both through propaganda and the effects of the internet. The legacy media is irrelevant now to most Americans. Just remember when you hear conservatives trying to keep up their whining about "the media" being after them that they control the real media now - Musk, Rogan, Carlson, etc. Those guys have been having fun being the outsiders and underdogs, but that shtick doesn't work anymore when you have the biggest microphone and platform.
Whoa. Surprise of the AM for me right there.
Yet the cultural issues are all coming from Republicans. And for them its cultural purity. So which is worse?
They tried telling people a week ago so they could claim that. There was two years of treating Trump with kid gloves before that. Why should anyone believe them at the last minute?
