@mattsheffield@mastodon.social
2026-10-30 02:37 UTC
But once Youngkin won, the narrative in the political class became fixed: He did it by bashing trans people.
Believing this to be true, Republicans began making anti-trans bigotry the primary message of their campaigns.
Trump cranked up the transphobia in 2024 and once again, people credited it for his victory. In reality, most incumbents across the world were thrown out due to post-pandemic inflation:
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/11/14/incumbents-are-losing-around-the-world-not-just-the-u-s
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@mattsheffield@mastodon.social 2026-10-30 02:40
Some political consulting organizations have claimed that they have research showing that Trump's ad campaign was effective. But they won't share their methods. The only publicly available study with a sound methodology of the Trump ads agreed with the political science consensus: it had essentially no effect. We've seen in subsequent elections that bashing trans people cannot protect a candidate from losing as well...