@Lana

"Both candidates are transphobic so you might as well vote for the one who has good other policies" is strikingly similar to the gameplan that happened about the climate, the Palestinians and undocumented people. The ratchet really does seem to move Rightwards.

@passenger Or maybe because the lesser evil lost the election, putting the greater evil in power (and we've seen what they've done with it over the past...is it only 7 months?), opportunistic politicians are looking at it and thinking hey, I need to be more evil to win elections, so I'll do that now.

If the lesser evil regularly won, that ratchet would be going in the other direction.

@kelson

I live in the UK. The lesser evil won the election here last year.

I wonder how trans rights are doing in the UK? Oh, they're substantially worse than they were under the previous reign of the greater evil; worse even than they are in the US? Oh dear.

I wonder how they see Palestinians? Oh, people are being arrested under terrorism legislation for displaying Palestinian flags, which is again worse than it was under the greater evil party? Oh dear.

Undocumented people are still being put in concentration camps, and new international agreements are being made to make their lives even harder? Oh dear.

Let's ask people with disabilities how their lives have gone recently? Oh dear.

I'm afraid that you'll have to try a bit harder if you're going to argue that lesser-evilism is anything but "same policy, different logo." In particular, you're going to have to apologise to all the above groups for throwing them under the bus.

@passenger @kelson
I think you refer primarily to a decision by a court on what a word used by Parliament 25 years ago means.

Seems hard to blame today's gov for that.

Meanwhile, had anyone non-governmental been working on such rights (yes) and why did a quiet concensus of 25 or more years collapse during the previous government?

(Cases do not rise to the Supreme Court within 2 years, I think.)