There Was No Vibe Shift

And so he made a statement about how he was against trans girls and women playing with cis girls and women together on the same field or on the same court.

Last week, Moulton told The New York Times Democrats spend too much time trying not to offend anyone, adding, "I have two little girls.

I don't want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat, I'm supposed to be afraid to say that."

Now, after this, it was noted that his own children play in a co-ed league, so what is he talking about? And of course, there actually is very little to no evidence suggesting that trans girls and trans women have some kind of inherent biological advantage over their cisgender counterparts, and that's ignoring the fact that there are vanishingly few trans girls and trans women playing competitive sports.

Right now, there's a big controversy over the WNBA, but there are no trans players in the WNBA.

It's all a manufactured controversy, a set of hypotheticals posed by grifters, really, who don't care about women's sports, who oftentimes are actually quite opposed to women's sports.

They're proving that women shouldn't have a league.

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It's too dramatic.

And who are looking for a way to aggrandize themselves, or in the case of someone like Sophie Cunningham, a mid player who is going nowhere and needs a new career.

But that's a digression.

I'll, I'll talk about all that later.

You kind of get a sense of how I feel about it.

We're talking about Seth Moulton here.

And so he made that decision probably looking towards a future election, probably looking towards this election, the 2026 Senate race, where he primaried incumbent senator Ed Markey, 80-year-old Massachusetts Democrat, reliable liberal, pretty decent senator.

The primary was on Tuesday, and Markey, he wiped the floor with Moulton.

There's barely anything left of the guy.

Total embarrassment, total defeat.

I'm sure this was unexpected for Seth Moulton, but it makes sense to me, because Moulton made this calculation that Trump had won this cultural victory and that this would endure for a couple years, at the very least.

But the fact of the matter is, and this is especially true in a pretty liberal state like Massachusetts, that people don't like it when you bully marginalized people.

A lot of people don't like it when you bully marginalized people.

And although there weren't enough of those people to put Kamala Harris over the top in 2024, there certainly is enough of those people to deny you a Senate seat in Massachusetts.

There's enough of those people to deny you a Senate seat or a House seat in many places in the country.

And in point of fact, in the almost two years since the 2024 election, public opinion on transgender people has not made this sharp turn to the right.

There wasn't a big MAGA cultural victory.