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Democrats Spent Years Fleeing LGBTQ Rights; Elizabeth Warren’s Promise is to Finally Deliver Us From Fear
Elizabeth Warren delighted fans at CNN’s LGBTQ candidate forum earlier this month when explaining how she’d respond to someone who believes marriage is between one man and one woman: “Then just marry one woman…,” she said she’d tell him, “assuming you can find one.” But after her appearance, Warren faced pushback not only from conservatives and Republicans, who activated a predictable outrage machine, but also from some Democrats who dragged out their own familiar but increasingly tired trope: that calling out those who trample our values by opposing equal treatment will drive away those elusive moderates who might otherwise deliver us elections.
In addition to reproach by loyal Republicans such as Senator Marco Rubio, Republican defector Tom Nichols warned in the USA Today that we Democrats will create “another super-majority win on the coasts while losing the Electoral College” if they keep insisting on “handing issues to the Republican culture warriors.” Conservative Trump critic John Podhoretz blasted Warren for risking the votes of moderates by mocking “every person who believes in traditional marriage by caricaturing them as incels” (an “involuntary celibate”).
