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Scott Wiener was taunted, jeered, and forced out of the Trans March in San Francisco on Friday. Wiener showed up at Dolores Park, just as he's done every year since 2004, to support his trans brothers and thisters as they marched around. But this year, trans activists surrounded him, cursed at him, and worked themselves into a frenzy telling Wiener that while they appreciated his legislation on trans, they were really angry with him for supporting Israel.
The activist filmed himself and others harassing Wiener, posting it proudly online. "Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out. It's sad because while he's written some good legislation for queers, he's ultimately a genocidal-supporting center right shill. Trigger warning: broken man walking away defeated. Vote Connie!" He wrote.
It's not shocking to see Democrat leaders be harassed for supporting Israel. Just this weekend, former President Joe Biden was heckled while speaking in Maryland, with people in the crowd calling him "Genocide Joe." And Pride parades that were only a few years ago hijacked by the trans agenda have now been hijacked by the "Free Palestine" agitators who say Israel should be given entirely to Palestinians.
But Wiener is one of the most radical Democrats out there. He's running to take Nancy Pelosi's vacated seat and he's promoted and pushed policies that remove parental rights and give them to the state if parents don't "affirm" their children's gender identity. He has pushed legislation against there being a sex offender list, saying that it impacts LGBTQ persons disproportionately, pushes men into women's prisons, and more.
None of this is enough for the radical trans left of the Democrat Party that has somehow put anti-Israel sentiment front and center in all of their activism. If Wiener isn't good enough for these folx, then the Democrat Party stands no chance of maintaining any kind of moderate center at all. If these activists come for Wiener, then Hakeem Jeffries and Kathy Hochul, don't have a chance.
They will do anything to keep their own power, whether it's dancing around at Pride or proposing national wealth taxes, but nothing they ever do will be good enough for the vocal, radical fringes of their party. Democrats have to try to maintain a big-tent party full of extreme radicals who hate half the party. That's not going to be easy, and as we've already seen with Democrats, they are easily pulled into the most far-left positions. It's not good for their party, it's not good for the country.
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