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Not your father’s GOP:

BREAKING: Rep. Denver Riggleman, who became a target of conservatives after officiating a same-sex wedding last year, was ousted Saturday by GOP voters in a drive-thru district convention https://t.co/oVezKLetG2

— POLITICO (@politico) June 14, 2020

VA GOP: Our state has turned blue. Let’s put a tiny number of hardcore right-wing activists in charge of selecting our candidates. This will allow us to fulfill cartoonish stereotypes by purging an incumbent, without a primary, because he officiated friends’ same-sex wedding.? https://t.co/YSNlhCLIXQ

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 14, 2020

Exactly. https://t.co/50TUXiucH8

— LGB Alliance (@ALLIANCELGB) June 6, 2020

Rowling has never made an ‘anti-trans’ tweet. This is ridiculous hyperbole and people are starting to wake up to the mass hysteria of “I saw Goody JK with the devil!” https://t.co/XkttxPe54M

— Lily Maynard (@LilyLilyMaynard) June 7, 2020

The children’s book industry is witnessing the most horrific onslaught of abuse towards a much-loved, measured, brave & generous woman author. The overwhelming silence from other authors, publishers, book organisations etc is disgraceful. You should all be ashamed of yourselves

— Rachel Rooney (@RooneyRachel) June 9, 2020

Update: In her own words:

WOW. Richard Grenell is stepping down as ambassador to Germany.

Looks like Grenell is available for Director of the FBI!

— thebradfordfile™ (@thebradfordfile) May 25, 2020

Thank you, Senator. https://t.co/bJqZBcKTMt

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) May 24, 2020

Job well done @RichardGrenell around the clock, as US Ambassador to Germany and Acting Director of National Intelligence. THANK YOU for your exceptional service! ? ??

— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) May 24, 2020

And many, many more accolades from the right.

#PrideMonth pic.twitter.com/YFkdrbeZnk

— Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) June 2, 2020

Yes, I’m blogging far less these days. But this article struck me as well-reasoned. Eventually, the limits and cultural contradictions of “LBGTQ” will put asunder this construct.

Author of landmark plays about gay men and AIDS was felled by coronavirus.

This does not seem magnanimous on the part of LGBT activists.

Interesting take on the difference in Sander’s support in 2016 vs. 2020.

I misread Bernie’s broad 2016 ideological coalition as a generic candidate net favorability vote. But it now seems like he combined ideological objections to Hillary from 2 directions, the economic left & the social/racial/gender right, & has mostly retained only the left side

— Matt Grossmann (@MattGrossmann) March 8, 2020

I think both Clinton and Sanders perceived Hillary’s attacks on Bernie as insufficiently left on culture to be effective when in fact they were counterproductive.

This misunderstanding went on to shape many candidates’ 2020 decision-making. https://t.co/RK1Dj4jA95

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 8, 2020

Rural/non-college white vote for Sanders in 2016 was mostly socially right of Hillary and those voters are comfortable with Biden now (and in the general that could potentially include some Obama- Trump voters too).
Bernie’s association with the “squad” cost him this vote.

— Campaign Diaries (@CampaignDiaries) March 8, 2020

A similar point, looking at why Warren’s campaign imploded. Via Tucker Carlson:

“Warren got derailed. More precisely, she got infected with a virulent strain of identity politics…. Elizabeth Warren went intersectional, and it killed her.”