I've seen how most liberals have resisted Trump They just had their fourth afternoon "event" So why on Earth would I believe that they would exert any pressure on transphobic Democrats to change At best I can imagine a "tut tut that's such a shame but what can you do" while relaxing at home

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Obama was the poster child for "we just need to get him elected and then he'll become the president we've all decided he is in our heads." and ppl voted him in twice and the "thank you" we got was more broken healthcare, deportations, drone bombing and oil drilling.

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The other thing people who are advocating "we just need to get into power, and a few genitally-obsessed bigots will have to do" ignore is that co-signing these bigots with all your heavy hitters and party endorsement is creating a *permission structure* for more, and more virulent, politicos to come

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There is nobody less "persuadable" to take up the cause of a vilified innocent minority they explicitly campaigned against than a newly-elected U.S. Senator who knows they won't have to run again for 6 years.

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As much as the rank transphobia currently running through the Democratic Party like stage 4 cancer boils over on the timeline, I never see anything about it on the Trending list on Bluesky dot com. Curious.

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