How is something that is so convincing to society at large that it should be blamed for an election result instead of a political party’s own strategies failing be so hard to document with examples? Surely to be so powerful, those communications would be persistent and not immediately removed. Because them being removed quickly means they don’t achieve the very reach they are being said to achieve. They are also not then being shared around.
There really is something inconsistent here.
And remember we have been constantly told that the issue is so insignificant too. Therefore we have such a powerful messaging campaign by inauthentic sources - bots and trolls - that has managed to educate a population enough to artificially raise the importance of the issue that the Democratic Party has no need to reconsider their stance. Because it is of insignificant importance.
If they are removed quickly how do they have such power to convince the wider society how to vote or as in this instance not turn out to vote?
Or a more likely answer is that this issue has not been artificially amplified above its level of real life importance at all.
That while there are bots and troll farms out there causing the same amount of dissent as usual, that the reality is that such a large % of the population are now directly impacted by gender identity issues. Or they have seen real life ramifications of gender identity being prioritised the way it has. And that has had an impact on voting.
And that then means that the Democratic Party needs to do exactly what the thread title says, finally have some honest conversations about gender identity.