Toby Buckle

Yes, at both Donald Trump, but also the response from, I believe, mainstream leadership Democrats who are not answering the call, who are not made for this moment, who belong to a political order that just no longer no longer exists.

Toby Buckle, who writes for us, he had a saying that has really stuck with me, which is that fascism is a scavenger, not a hunter.

And in that, even though they sort of think of themselves as these big tough lions, really they are buzzards that come along when an institution is already dying.

And, I mean, if you think about the Trump second term in particular, that really is the case.

In fact, they wrote about it at the New Republic yesterday.

Toby Buckle writing, many centrist think tanks, columnists, and pundits have a pitch for an easy way to win more support.

Moderate on trans rights.

This has been a perennial concern of the chattering classes for the entire Trump era, and the offer they put to Democrats is a seemingly attractive one.

Centrists, of course, have bemoaned this with constant Republican attacks.

Democrats, it's claimed, risk looking out of touch if they don't stay on the train and moderate further.

Toby Buckle cites James Tallarico turning turtle on the issue.

And it says just about every trans person I know thinks concerns about sports are misleadingly presented and vastly overblown.