The problem is that the right just does the thing five fucking times over while the left wrings their hands about how they might be perceived for even considering the thing.

It works because they think the whole pearl clutching act from the right is genuine. It never fucking is. It’s a cudgel.

I’m not sure how this can ever be fixed because the left tends to genuinely care about doing things ethically. The right knows this and uses it. There’s no way to stop it without fundamentally changing our ethics (and losing our ideology in the process).

We have to be mindful of this strategy and stop giving the benefit of the doubt to people who abuse it as a means to an end. To literally kill people for being trans, for example.