Andrew Sullivan

Leave gender dysphoric kids alone.

Help them in every way you can, psychologically, all the rest of it.

But do not intervene medically, irreversibly.

Why can't they say that?

And why can't they also say we are ending DEI?

We don't think this has helped.

We think it has hurt.

If a Democrat had a solid affordability agenda and a return to decency and an end to wokeness, he'd win or she'd win.

But the third stool, it's so hard.

You saw, I mean, there's an interesting piece in The Atlantic about the Mellon Foundation.

The forces pushing wokeness have not been grassroots.

A lot of them have been foundation built.

Since we won marriage equality for gays, the increase in funding for the gay rights groups has gone up 66%.

Now, they've got nothing to do but make trouble.

So a lot of this is hard to deal with at the structural level because the foundations, the donors are so extreme and have so much money.

But I mean, I can hope and pray that someone will come along because the possible political gains

from making that position, from doing in 2028 what Clinton did in 91, and to some extent what Barack Obama did in 2004, which is aggressively and clearly retake the center, whoever does that is going to do very well.

People are, I think, to be honest, they're exhausted by what Trump has put them through.

And I think there will be a great desire

for some calm.