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I think a lot about this Matt Bors cartoon. People forget today, but as recently as 2016 trans issues were so uncontroversial that even left-wing writers treated it as obvious that the new Trump right would leave them alone. We’re backsliding and often we don’t even realize it.
Somehow I never noticed before today, but my long-standing frustration with Democrats' poll-driven politics is maybe best explained by Plato's cave.
Surprising that a 2400-year old philosophical puzzle captures the basic mechanism of modern politics so well, but it does.