I’m Not Reading This Type of U.S. Election Postmortem
Trans people shouldn’t be blamed
Though I read a fair amount of U.S. political news, there’s a genre of election postmortem on which I just can’t bring myself to dwell.
It’s about the Republicans’ $215 million ad spend on anti-trans hate.
(By the way, giving credit where credit is due, Washington Post journalist Casey Parks figured out the amount using AdImpact data.)
If you’ve read my essays before, you know I tend to do deep-dives into texts and hammer away. This story, however, is uncharacteristically more off-the-cuff. I’m not referring to any particular outside text.
Context: The Republicans spent $215 million to aggressively mock trans people over the airwaves and imply that we’re something less than fellow humans who are worthy of political representation or serious attention.
They only ever have the one joke, as I wrote last month. Now we can call it the $215 million joke.
The trans community, by the way, would have been challenged to raise the tiniest fraction of what the Republicans spent on anti-trans…
