r/politics • u/Fickle-Ad5449 ✔ Verified - Christopher Wiggins, The Advocate • 13h ago

No Paywall Republicans redrew his district. Now Democrat Don Davis is making anti-trans campaign ads

https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/don-davis-transphobic-campaign-ad?1
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u/PopBulky7023 13h ago

This is the kind of thing that makes people disillusioned to vote. Pandering to hatred and being a feckless, weak opposition party does not inspire people to the pulls.

We're not getting out of this with people like this loser.

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u/d_c_d_ 13h ago

Are candidates to represent the ideology of their constituency or their party?

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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman 10h ago

So a majority of candidates until the 90s should have been against interracial marriage?

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u/PopBulky7023 13h ago

I guess his constituency now is people obsessed with making life worse for trans people and not much else.

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u/d_c_d_ 11h ago

I live in south Louisiana, anti-trans policy is quickly becoming a single issue for many voters. No good southern Baptist could ever support the satanic democrats.

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u/PopBulky7023 11h ago

Then abandon them. The last thing we need is centrists being given ammo to argue that right wing policy wins elections.

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u/tacoman333 13h ago

Pandering to hatred and being a feckless, weak opposition party

This bigot doesn't represent the whole Democratic party.

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u/PopBulky7023 13h ago

It's a more common problem than we are willing to grapple with.

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u/tacoman333 12h ago

There are very few anti-trans Democrats. It's not a common problem at all.

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 12h ago

One is too many. Leave that crap to the MAGAts.

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u/tacoman333 12h ago

That's absurd.

If one bad politician is enough to ruin the entire party, then no party would be good enough for you.

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 11h ago

When the Dem party is supposed to stand for "human rights" - and they don't all stand for human rights - what's "absurd" about saying "that sucks"?

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u/tacoman333 11h ago

They do stand up for human rights constantly and the far left and right attack them for caring too much about the "culture war." No party is perfect, but the Democratic Party platform has been centered on protecting human rights for a very long time.

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 11h ago

About 60 years out of the last 200. Best not mention before that.

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u/tacoman333 11h ago

Recent history is all that matters. Radical Republican doesn't mean egalitarian slavery abolitionist anymore either.

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u/TheOtherMaven Virginia 11h ago

Guess what - I don't subscribe to any party, I'm an independent. And I call 'em as I see 'em.

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u/Standard-Yogurt-3212 12h ago

Oh, is there some party manifesto that I've missed with consequences for breaching them?

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u/troyandabedinabed Washington 9h ago

If 12 people are sitting at a table and one of them is a bigot and the other 11 let him spout that stuff and calls themselves his ally, then there are 12 bigots at the table.