A lot of people seem to have internalized Republican critiques that the New York Times is liberal. It is center-right. It speaks for a particular definition of the Establishment. I hope this reduces your cognitive dissonance.

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My teaching strategy this semester:

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This is correct. They'll *claim* that if you vote for the anti-trans Dem, you can push them left once they're in office. But try it. Try to push an anti-trans, centrist Dem to the left and watch the screeches come in about how you're undermining the Dem agenda or there are bigger priorities.

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I'm particularly impressed that their *ONLY* solution is voting. There'd be at least an argument if they could muster "vote and tomorrow I'll be protesting with you", but every time it's just vote to be killed or enjoy being killed, no actual empathy or solution.

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Purity politics: a term used by the privileged to excuse any sort of wrong doing.

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