Joe.My.God. LGBT News
Media Matters has the transcript:
DeSantis is being pilloried, not just by the libs, but by the squishes on the right for an ad that people are saying is homophobic. We’re not gonna tolerate this rainbow pride stuff anymore.
I think it’s a great ad. One, because it’s funny. It’s a self-aware ad. I don’t think anybody really believes that Ron DeSantis is gonna be, you know, instituting Sharia law and throwing homosexuals off rooftops. Right?
Nobody really believes that but the ad, with all of its sigma male Patrick Bateman, kind of, vaporwave aesthetic, is showing people a real aspect of his political legacy and his accomplishments, which is we’re not going to enshrine special protections for this disordered view of human nature.
We’re gonna be nice to people. We’re gonna tolerate things within reason, but no, we’re gonna roll back the pride movement that’s now made it all the way into your kid’s kindergarten classroom.
And it’s really, really good, and he’s smart to go after Trump on this because Trump is by far the most pro-LGBTQ lmnop candidate that the GOP has ever run for president. And I don’t think this is because Trump is some crusader for gay rights or transgenderism or anything like that.
I think it’s because Trump is just — he’s just an old school normal guy who doesn’t really care about this stuff and he kind — he’s willing to pander to different groups to get their votes. But, you know, I don’t think you can call him a rainbow activist or anything like that.
The reason this is a really good attack, though, on Donald Trump is it gives the Republican base a justification for abandoning Trump and embracing DeSantis.
If he runs to the right of Trump on the social issues, specifically on the rainbow coalition, that will give the hardcore guys an opportunity to say, actually, if we really wanna be subversive, if we really wanna be edgy, we’re gonna follow this guy who’s threatening the sexual revolution, which the libs hold very, very dear.