Welcome to the club of the politically homeless. As a 70 year-old, lifelong liberal who came out as a lesbian 50 years ago, I have spent my entire life, until two years ago, firmly on the left, or on the far left at times. CRT and the trans issue turned my thinking upside down.

I no longer live by the “Blue Menu/Red Menu” paradigm, where I am only allowed to eat off one side of the menu, where I just assume that everything on MY menu tastes delicious. It’s impossible to make sense of the world if I do that. Sorry, men are not women. Sorry, we do not live in an intrinsically racist universe. Sorry, Blue Menu, a lot of what you’re offering tastes like crap.

It’s not really true that I’m politically homeless. It’s more accurate to say that I have become an Independent, highly suspicious of the partisan corruption of my previously reliable news sources. No more New York Times, for instance. I never imagined that would happen. We may have Trump to thank for this, but I don’t even blame him. Trading out the truth in service of an ideology was a choice that the New York Times et al made. Now, I approach each issue with an open mind, I research and read everything. I no longer think DeSantis and other politicians on the right are idiots. I don’t agree with them on a lot of things, but when it comes to critical race theory and queer theory, they are 100% correct. They may lack nuance, but they’re correct.