Quote (tagged4nothing @ Dec 3 2019 11:54am)
mentioning the overton window though, it only makes sense that the "left" will show further left right now.
trump single-handedly pulled the republican party to a more leftish state than it was prior.
that parts definitely on point
I mean yeah, the republican party used to be too far right during the evangelical death grip and followed up with the tea party. The party that was once vehemently anti-gay is now pro-gay marriage but not in favor of sex reassignment surgery for 8 year olds. They support legal immigrants but not illegal immigrants. They support Catholics and Hindus and Sikhs and Jews and atheists alike but eye Muslims warily. Back a decade or two or three ago I would have considered this the sane middle ground between the wingnuts like Michele Bachmann and the communist wackjobs who held no power. Aaron Sorkin wrote his West Wing pol-fantasy about having a centrist Republican like that some day. Its only natural that when the GOP shifted left, the Overton window shifted with them. We wouldn't have headlines about "Trump misgenders Chelsea Manning" in 1999, jesus christ.