Trans journalist Erin Reed has published a list of Democratic midterm candidates with anti-trans records, and the question she is forcing is one the party would rather not answer: if trans voters keep rewarding Democrats who harm them, what signal does that send? The calculation is real, the stakes are high, and there is no clean answer.
We’ve seen the answer with Israel/Gaza. Sometimes you have to be willing to punish your own party in the general. The Democratic party has moved substantially on the Palestine issue over the last two years. That’s only happened because of Kamala’s loss. It never would have happened if she had won.