These fringe issues may not be "mainstream left-wing policy" but unfortunately they are core policies of the very influential ultra-left-wing which is now much larger than you think, and these core policies have, judging from my friend group, been normalized to a certain extent throughout much of the mainstream left.
These fringe issues may not be "mainstream left-wing policy" but unfortunately they are core policies of the very influential ultra-left-wing which is now much larger than you think, and these core policies have, judging from my friend group, been normalized to a certain extent throughout much of the mainstream left.
"but unfortunately they are core policies of the very influential ultra-left-wing which is now much larger than you think"
I'm not sure how large it is, but there's no doubt that it's enormously influential. That's not lost on me at all. As Ive said many times, the problem is that most sane people on the political left are too afraid to speak up against it. Which is why it's so easy for Rufo to present those fringe issues as mainstream. After all, if hardly anybody on the left dares to speak up about dildos and racial segregation in schools, why would anybody on the right believe they don't support it? I don't know a single person who, when they're not afraid of who might be listening, really thinks the insane stuff is okay.
These fringe issues may not be "mainstream left-wing policy" but unfortunately they are core policies of the very influential ultra-left-wing which is now much larger than you think, and these core policies have, judging from my friend group, been normalized to a certain extent throughout much of the mainstream left.
"but unfortunately they are core policies of the very influential ultra-left-wing which is now much larger than you think"
I'm not sure how large it is, but there's no doubt that it's enormously influential. That's not lost on me at all. As Ive said many times, the problem is that most sane people on the political left are too afraid to speak up against it. Which is why it's so easy for Rufo to present those fringe issues as mainstream. After all, if hardly anybody on the left dares to speak up about dildos and racial segregation in schools, why would anybody on the right believe they don't support it? I don't know a single person who, when they're not afraid of who might be listening, really thinks the insane stuff is okay.
But by letting the radicals be the standard bearer of the party they set it as the definition of the party.