Imara Jones knew this was coming.
Let me start with a questionDonald Trumpused to ask: What the hell is going on?
So they the extreme Christian Nationalist voices have the momentum.
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Whats ruling the day is fakery and falsehoods.
Thats intentional, not an accident.
Its designed to shape the conversation for advance extreme views, so extreme people can get into power.
It played out exactly as designed.
Whats always struck me in this battle is the gap between rhetoric and reality.
We need politicians who understand the issue to turn up the volume.
It cant fall toSarah McBride[the first openly trans member of Congress, elected this year].
She has to do her job shes not there as the trans congressperson.
There has to be a broad-based intention to shift the conversation.
And yet onMorning Joe, theyre complaining about pronouns.The Economistis saying Everyone is talking about pronouns.
Everyone has gone mad.
Were in a different time.
Want to know what athletes are and their experiences?
Thats actually not the problem.
We have to reckon with that, not shy away from it and not excuse it.
Through that lens, whats happening to trans people makes total sense.
They have memory of that time before.
I grew up in post-segregation America, and my entire experience was radically different.
And I thought that was insane.
My parents would describe America before 1968, I was like, thats wild.
Weve got to junk this othering rhetoric that weve deployed since Reagan to get elected.
There was another way, and there was a choice not to go down that road.
I think that shows this character flaw that were now going to wrestle with.
Its not only about the political infrastructure and machines, and billionaires.
And were going to see the darkness really emerge when people start taking to the streets again.
