{"id":81539,"date":"2023-04-18T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=81539"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T22:17:09","slug":"people-who-pivot-this-quickly-need-to-make-sure-their-pants-are-securely-buckled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/04\/18\/people-who-pivot-this-quickly-need-to-make-sure-their-pants-are-securely-buckled\/","title":{"rendered":"“People who pivot this quickly need to make sure their pants are securely buckled”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve apparently reached the “Republicans Pounce” stage<\/a> of yet another progressive crusade:<\/p>\n

The memo has gone out, and the pivot has arrived.<\/p>\n

Ten days ago, you may remember<\/a>, the suddenly high-profile<\/a> Nebraska Senator Machaela Cavanaugh went on NPR to play make-believe, expressing consternation over this weird new focus on transgender issues over on the political right: “I don’t know why, as a nation, as policymakers, there is this newfound focus on trans children… And all of the sudden, there is a decision by policymakers that we need to do something about them. It doesn’t make any sense to me.” It’s the why are you guys so obsessed with this<\/em> DARVO<\/a> maneuver, spun with bald-faced shamelessness by people who’ve been talking for years about the thing that they suddenly want you to know it’s creepy to talk about.<\/p>\n

Now the New York Times<\/em> explains the same thing in a similar way<\/a>, writing that transgender issues have suddenly become a big deal in America because scheming right-wingers decided to cook it up<\/em> as a fake wedge issue:<\/p>\n

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“The religious right went searching for an issue.” To get donors to write some checks, see. They just made it up, in a cynical act of invention. A bunch of social conservatives were sitting around the office, lamenting how no one gives them money anymore because everybody stopped hating the gays, so they decided, tactically, to pretend<\/em> that transgender rights was a thing, now, so that they could trick people into giving them money again. Completely out of left field! Trans rights was just sitting there watching some Netflix with a tub of Cherry Garcia when suddenly the doorbell rang.<\/p>\n

There’s no pouncing<\/em>, but you’ve heard this descriptive maneuver before:<\/p>\n