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Don't Vote For The Worst Anti-Trans Democrats (www.erininthemorning.com)
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[–] 17 points 1 week ago* (11 children)

The first line of the article says "On Saturday, Josh Turek, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Iowa,"

Josh Turek is running alone against a Republican. Vote for the worst Democrats, because they are factually better than the best Republican.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago* (7 children)

    If you make it past the first sentence, you’ll discover Erin is making a broader point, and using Iowa merely as al lens to focus it

    Before I make my case, I want to be clear about what I am asking, because the people who respond to this piece will not be. I am not asking any of my readers to vote Republican. I am not asking anyone to stay home and sit the election out. I am not asking my readers to abandon the Democratic Party, which I want to win in a wave election this year. And I am not asking anyone to abstain from every Democratic politician who has ever taken a single poor or uneducated stance toward transgender people. What I am asking is that transgender people, and the people who care about us, find the line they would draw on any other fundamental human rights issue, and draw it here: do not give the worst anti-transgender Democrats your vote. Leave that line blank, vote for every other candidate, and make sure the story of 2026 is not that the Democratic Party has to accept anti-transgender policy in order to win.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    That is effectively handing your vote to a Republican. We're in a fight trying to wrest power from the people trying to kill them and this persons solution is to help those people.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    You literally cannot read. I am explicitly discussing races with no Republicans in them; your response is complete nonsense.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    What national or statewide race has an anti-trans Democrat who is NOT running against an even-worse Republican??

    Is there Democratic candidate somewhere that's running against another, anti-transDemocrat?

    Running unopposed? Nah, bug doubt on that.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I find this to be idiocy. If they leave that line blank they will be throwing their district to the GOP. Every seat matters, ever single vote matters.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    I find this to be idiocy. 1, 0, and -1 are different numbers, and different races require different strategies. And you’ve entirely abandoned my original point, which is that while your framework may hold for some races, it cannot hold for all of them, mechanically.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    If you read a couple more lines about Josh Turek:

    Read as federal policy, this is a Hyde Amendment for transgender people—no Medicaid, Medicare, or ACA subsidies. It would be horrific. The policy is more extreme than even some Republican policies in red states.

    So, how is he better than his Republican opponent exactly? They both want to kill trans people, but only Josh Turek will show Democratic consultants that anti-trans policies win elections if he wins.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    1. Ashley Hinson is literally running ads attacking the DNC for supporting transgenders, including Turek. So if anything can be true it's that she thinks depriving them of healthcare isn't enough.

    2. DNC platform is bodily autonomy, to overturn citizens united, release the epstein files, and tax the rich, accomplishing that is better not only for transgender but everyone.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    I am not sure how to better phrase this to come off as not attacking you, but before I respond to the comment's contents I need to make this clear. "Supporting transgenders" is a shitty phrasing that is used to dehumanize transgender people. Transgender is not a noun, I am not "a transgender", I am a transgender person or a transgender woman (also common shit, transwoman instead of trans woman). Again, I am not trying to accuse you of being transphobic, I just want to educate anyone reading this as I see this all too often on the internet!

    1. Republicans are transphobic, that's just a fact. They'll also accuse even the most transphobic Democrat of being too pro trans people. Turek is actively campaigning on harsher anti-trans policies than those that exist in Republican lead states. They are both awful, but only one of them is in direct opposition to their own party's platform.

    2. You're so close to getting where I am coming from with this one. If DNC leadership sees that running on a platform of bigotry wins elections, they'll double down on it hard. We'll be their "acceptable sacrifice". Bodily autonomy is the stated policy today, but what about in 2028? 2030? 2032? Will that still be the policy in a few years if people like Turek win? I don't want the party to normalize transphobic policies as an acceptable stance for candidates to hold.

    "There’s a saying in Germany. If there’s a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis." I'd rather not to have people like this sit down at the Democrat's table.

    Look at what happened in the UK with Labour. They swung super far right on trans rights immediately upon winning. Trans people are worse off now than they were under the conservatives.

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