Today, Oct 18, The Free Press published the results of a wonderful interview conducted by Bari Weiss with transgender Brianna Wu who has radically changed her assessment of the political landscape over the last few years. While she still considers herself a progressive, she no longer sees the Democratic Party as a valid representative of that perspective. Indeed she jokes with Weiss that she probably wouldn’t have consented to be interviewed by her ten years ago.
Wu says she still actively lobbies for the health and welfare of the trans community, while nevertheless contending that many of its demands, supported by the woke Left, are entirely unreasonable. Having apparently been the victim of a far-right cyber attack, she maintains that at least an equal amount of hateful assaults have been launched by the other side. Similarly, still seeing herself as a devoted Feminist, she considers many of the demands of the contemporary movement for statistical parity with men, to simply fly in the face of Reality.
Common sense is a recurring theme in the conversation between Wu and Weiss. While we need not pin a label on the former, it seems obvious that her views align perfectly with the “conservatism” embraced by Weiss. The multitude of pundits such as she whom I admire are Not racists, misogynists, transphobes, etc.. They are people of simple Common Sense. Impervious to the dictates of that domain, many on the Left are now reviling Brianna Wu as a loathsome traitor. In doing so, of course, they do nothing but assert their indifference to moral/intellectual integrity!