If the purest distillation of Bernie Sanders' ethos is "let's fight for someone we don't know," then Trumpism is "I will fight the people you don't know"
plus, it's hard to see how the reactionary centrist set is edging either toward outright Trumpism or pushing the Democratic party to roll back civil rights on certain out-groups as anything other than an infatuation with "exterminate the brutes" politics
The thing about Wilhoit's law is that the corrolary he describes -- that there must be no one bound by a law that doesn't protect them, or anyone protected by a law that they aren't themselves bound by -- clarifies that there's really only the two ways to do it.
tbh I think it's bc a lot of centrist Dems see the trans thing as silly. My son is bi, he just came out at Thanksgiving, and ppl can act however they like mostly but male and female exist and just work with it I guess
Except the reality is that this rarely goes the way the masses want it since it mostly goes the way of monarchy, oligarchy, plutocracy - every form but anything involving power to the people.
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"...make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them"
is the most important part for them.