The trans issue was a problem that could have been managed better. I don't think it's trying to appease both sides to acknowledge someone else's position. Or even embrace it. Most people don't hate trans people, but they are afraid and biased or whatever, let them have their fear. Show you understand it. You can't expect people to have the same rigid idealogical views across a country, a city, or even a neighborhood.
we may think those trans ads are bullshyt, and political optics, and to some degree they are, but they are reaching millions of potential voters. You need to counter the message, or lose the conversation entirely.
“Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face,” Seth Moulton, a Democratic representative from Massachusetts, told The Times last week. “I have two little girls; I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
“Trump has fundamentally changed the way that we campaign and govern in America,” said Rebecca Katz, the chief strategist for the successful Senate campaigns of Gallego and, before him, John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat. She told me that a candidate’s ability to communicate with voters on their own terms, in relatable language, is crucially important. And that skill and sensibility have nothing to do with how much political experience the person has.
