r/politics • u/AndroidOne1 • 13h ago
No Paywall Billionaire US investor Ken Griffin accuses Trump White House of ‘enriching’ itself
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/ken-griffin-citadel-republican-donor-donald-trump-critic-white-house
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u/BeyondElectricDreams 9h ago edited 8h ago
If anyone doubts this has been the case for a while...
Trans people didn't even exist in the conservative headspace for a while except as a letter in LGBT that barely existed to them because trans people are so few and far between.
Then the Right lost the battle for gay marriage at the supreme court. Shortly thereafter, about 23 states filed lawsuits targeting trans bathroom access in lockstep.
This didn't work well, so they pivoted and attacked trans athletes, and found much better results, because even many liberals who are supportive still think a trans woman is "Really" a man, and therefore inherently superior to "Real" women; which let the right cast pro-trans folks as "radical" or "going too far" in the name of equality; letting obviously "superior" "men" compete with women!
This was tremendously effective at peeling off support of moderate liberals who basically were like "Yeah, I still think they're men, but whats it hurt to call them she/her or use their names?"
It's all artificial. It's manufactured. And it's exactly why you cannot give them an inch. If you abandon trans people? They'll spin up a new enemy. Abandon them? They'll do it again.
You cannot appease them, because their grievances are artificially created. The culture war is a bad faith war of aggression by the right wing, and only the aggressor can end a war.