Is There a Cross Cross Trans Ideological Kind of Fellowship?

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If you're classically liberal at heart, that makes you something of an outlier from either side these days. There is a remarkable mirroring going on among the sort of the hard left and the populist right in terms of embracing identity politics kind of arguments. And I don't know how distorting a lens social media has thrown over it, but it does feel new.

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