listen: i'm openly queer. and, i don't like republicans for exactly the same reason that i don't like muslims - or catholics. i've been pretty clear on the point.

i'm also a socialist, so i care about workers. and, trump came through on the trade deal. he did. the tax cuts were nonsense, but the trade deal is substantive, and should create some upward pressure on wages for the first time in decades. i have to acknowledge that, because the democrats have historically been the lesser evil precisely because they've been the party of the working class, and if that is flipping then some reanalysis is necessary.

but, it wouldn't make a lot of sense for me to speak out against the dangers that the normalization of islam poses to the queer movement (and the wider society, in general) and then go and support the republicans. the point i've been making from the start is that they're the ones with the conservative values, so they're the ones that ought to bail to the right-wing party. and, i consequently want to have this fight on the floor of the democratic convention, and not at the ballot box, where i'm voting against my own interests.

i am certainly cognizant that if the republicans do come out of this mess as the workers party, and the democrats do end up as the new conservative party, then the fight is going to be at the republican convention rather than the democratic convention, in the end - rather than have this fight with conservative muslims, i'll have to have it with conservative christians. but, we're not there yet. the democrats are still the queer party, and the queers need to make sure the muslims know it.

so, there's no contradiction, here. what there is is a fight over the nature of the left, and whether it is to be a secular/liberal left or a "progressive"/religious one.