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California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom He was surprised recently when he involved male athletes who were transgender in women’s sports “very unfair”. The forum is a podcast discussion with Maga activist Charlie Kirk, which is almost as compelling as the statement itself.
But Newsom’s comments are obviously not a complete denial of gender ideology. They reflect only a new trend within the Democratic Party that involves expressing public suspicion about trans ideology while still being unable to object to it.
This obvious mismatch between speech and action is not only a political expediency. This is a structural problem. this Democratic Party Increasingly, they find themselves balancing behavior: acknowledging how unpopular its class of activists has become, but still rely on funding, organizing and electoral mobilization. As long as Democrats cannot break their edge with them, Republicans will continue to use gender ideology as a replacement for widespread criticism of Democrats as a party that cannot be trusted.
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The foundation of democracy is not committed to the free world of transgender issues. In fact, a New York Times poll in January found that more than two-thirds of Democrats (and 79% of Americans) allow biological men to participate in women’s sports. The political risks of disagreement should be obvious.
However, when Republicans recently forced the Senate to vote for biological men in female track and field, none of the Democrats lost money. Even Pennsylvania John Fettmanthe alleged blue-collar truth of the left, the Taylors didn’t feel uneasy. Although he was different from immigrants and Israeli parties, he succumbed to the time when he committed cross-identification athletes as innocent children fell into a “political vortex.” Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin sent a similar note on Meet the Media, saying the issue should be left to local communities.
Like Newsom, both Fetterman and Slotkin tried rhetoric hedging while voting firmly with their parties. In the case of medical intervention, “leave decisions to parents” and in the case of sports “leave decisions to communities” has become the standard response of the Democratic Party to defend a position that most of their own voters do not support.
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Rejecting the middle class reveals the real power within the Democratic Party. Although elected officials must win voters every few years, they rely on the party’s class of activists every day. Progressive NGOs, donor networks and advocacy organizations The first choice for democracy and decision-making – their interest in compromising gender ideology is zero. As a result, elected officials were motivated to get rid of majority opinions and ideological purity.
As Ruy Teixeira and John Judis in “Where have all the Democrats gone?“The party has alienated the working class and non-white voters by relying on educated, favorable elites. But for activists, the emergence of extreme positions is a characteristic, not a mistake. This is how they raise funds, gather supporters and consolidate control over party policies.
Why do Democratic politicians listen? Frances Lee documented in her book Unsafe Majority: Congress and the Permanent Movement, the narrow, fiercely competitive nature of modern elections forces both sides into a state of permanent movement mode, thus enhancing the influence of radical factions. and Congressional control The parties always snap up and prioritize short-term mobilization over long-term alliance building, making them increasingly supportive of their ideological supporters. The Democratic refusal to curriculum corrections (even when it is politically expensive) is a direct result of this dynamic.
Democratic voters oppose men in the women’s movement, but most people don’t prioritize this. They may disagree with the radicals, but when they are with them, they do not punish their party on the ballot box. Thus, the unmotivated public succumbed to an aggressive single-shot hall.
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But even if women’s sports are not the biggest concern for most Americans, the comprehensive focus of elected Democrats on gender highlights a deeper problem: the party’s operational inability to break into the edge with its activists. This is especially evident in Newsom’s case, and his recent words do not match his actions.
In 2020, Newsom signed California’s Transgender, Agent, and Dignity Act, which allows male prisoners to be placed in women’s prisons. California continues to allow men to participate in female sports, and Actively fight Although Newsom talks kindly about “fairness”, on this issue, the federal government is on this issue.
Newsom claimed in a conversation with Kirk that no one in his office used the term “Latinx”, but his own past statements proved it.
Republicans have grasped the Democratic gender confusion by not only making voters concerned about transgender issues, but also using them to expose the broader weaknesses of the Democratic Party. If Democrats are reluctant to tolerate marginal activists on this bipartisan consensus, why trust anything else about them?
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Newsom’s embarrassing semi-housing style is uncontrollable. It was an attempt to promote the deep division of his party. Democrats are increasingly trying to speak like moderates while at the same time acting like activists. But politics is about choice, and the Democrats made it. They bet on voters will hate Donald Trump They don’t want to punish the party for falling to the edge.
So Republicans, especially the Trump administration, prove they are wrong – not only by hammering the Democrats’ gender ideology, but by demonstrating basic competence on issues that voters care most.
