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Note the editor: The next essay first appeared in City magazine.
California Democrat Government Gavin News Recently, they were surprised when he marked the participation of male athletes in the female sport “Deep Disobed”. The forum, a sub -trial discussion with Maga Charlie Kirk’s activist, was almost as striking as the statement itself.
But Newsom’s comments were not visible to the aversion of gender ideology. They just reflect a new trend within a democratic party that involves expressing public skepticism according to transgender ideology, while remains unable to act against it.
This apparent mismatch between rhetoric and action is not just political expeditionality; This is a structural problem. AND Democratic party He is increasingly found in the rank of balance: admitting that his unpopular activist class has become, but remains dependent on the financing, organizing and mobilization of the choice. As long as the Democrats are unable to interrupt with the edge, the Republicans will continue to use their native ideology as an apartment for a wider critique of Democrats as a party that cannot be believed to be managed competently.
The democratic base is not dedicated to the liberal line on transgender issues. The January of January New York Times, in fact, found that more than two-thirds of Democrats-I 79 percent of Americans would allow biological men to compete in women’s sports. The political risk in disagreement should be obvious.
However, when the Republicans recently forced the voting of the Senate on the proposal of the Law on the Prohibition of Biological Males of Athletics, no democrats violated ranks. Even Pennsylvania John FettermanThe left allegedly blue-brothel, she did not move. Although he separated from his party on immigration and Israel, he set up a line, throwing trans-idting athletes as innocent children caught in a “political vortex”. Senator Michigan Elissa Samos hit a similar note to “Meet The Press”, saying that the issue should be left to local communities.
Like News, both Fetterman and Famous tried rhetorical protection, while they voted firmly with their party. “Leave the decision to parents” in the case of medical interventions and “leave the decision to communities” in the event of a sport have become the standard responses of Democrats to defend their position that most of their voters do not support.
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The refusal of moderate reveals where real power lies in the Democratic Party. Although elected officials have to beat voters every few years, they rely on the party class every day. Progressive non -governmental organizations, donors networks and advocacy organizations have a huge influence A democratic first -team player And creating politics – and they have a zero interest in compromising gender ideology. As a result, elected officials are encouraged to move away from the opinion of the majority and according to ideological purity.
As Ruy Teixeira and John Judis claim in “Where did all Democrats go?“The recess of the party on the educated, activist elite alienated the working class voters and non-white. But for activists, the investment of extreme positions of the feature, not the mistake. This is the way they raise money, supporters of myths and consolidate control over the party’s appliances.
Why do democratic politicians listen to? As Frances Lee documented in his book “Insecure majority: Congress and Eternal Campaign”, a narrow, intensely competitive nature of modern choices forces both sides to a constant campaign, enhancing the influence of activist fractions. WITH Congress control Always to capture, the parties are prioritized by short-term mobilization during the long-term construction of the coalition-giving them more and more by looking at their most important supporters. The rejection of the Democratic Party to correct himself and when politically expensive is the result of this dynamics.
Democratic voters oppose males in women’s sports, but most do not give it a priority. They may not agree with the activists, but they do not punish their own fun on the ballot box when fighting with them. Thus, the unmotivated public offenses a highly motivated lobby with one edition.
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But even if women’s sports are not the main concern of Americans, the overall step of locking the chosen democrats on gender issues emphasizes a deeper problem: the party is operationally unable to break up with its activist edge. This is especially great in the case of Newsom, where his recent words do not fit his actions.
In 2020, Newsa signed a California transgender law on respect, agency and dignity, which allows for male prisoners who identify themselves as females to be located in women’s prisons. California still allows men to participate in women’s sports and is actively fight The federal government on this issue, despite Newsom Podcasta, an acceptable conversation about “righteousness”.
In his conversation with Kirk, Newsa claimed that no one in his office had ever used the term “Latinx”, but his own past statements prove otherwise.
Republicans seized for the confusion of Democrats not only so that voters take care of transgender issues, but using these questions to expose the wider weaknesses of Democrats. If Democrats will not counteract the marginal activists on the issue of a double -sided consensus, why trust them with anything else?
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Newsom’s clumsy half -meter is not moderate. It is an attempt to attribute deep separation to his party. More and more Democrats are trying to talk like moderate while managing as activists. But politics talks about the election, and Democrats made their own. Betting the voters will hate Donald Trump More than they will want to punish the party for spinning on its edge.
Thus, it falls to the Republicans, and especially Trump’s administration, to prove them to be wrong – not just with the hammering of Democrats to their native ideology, but showing basic competence in issues that care for voters.
