Last up today, Shawn McCreesh of The New York Times spends some time with the “A-Gays of Washington” in “Donald Trump’s Big Gay Government.” A new power tribe in the capital, these gay Republican men are “(mostly) out, they’re proud (to work for President Trump) and they have big jobs inside (or alongside) this administration.”
Journalist James Kirchick, who wrote the book “Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington,” urges, “Read
Read @ShawnMcCreesh’s sociological safari into Gay MAGA Washington, in which I tell Shawn that Trump is ‘like a drag queen. He’s outrageous, he’s transgressive, he’s catty, he’s a narcissist the likes of which we haven’t seen since Alexander the Great.’”
Not everyone can stomach the hypocrisy, though. “The way [one young, gay Democratic staffer] put it: You can either party with the gays on Fire Island, or you can cut funding for AIDS programs, but you can’t do both,” McCreesh writes.
Beyond the eye-catching headline and anecdotes, Edward Feser says this is “An important and detailed account of how thoroughly Trump is moving the ethos of the GOP away from social conservatism, especially given that ‘personnel is policy
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