Rachel Vorona Cote is a freelance critic and the author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today.

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In signaling their commitment to an extreme and debatable idea of trans rights, Democrats hemorrhaged other constituencies.

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Americans have been jaded about their leaders for decades.

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