This satirical political commentary exposes the Republican Party’s long history of hypocrisy regarding LGBTQ issues, documenting how GOP politicians who built careers opposing gay rights were later caught in same-sex scandals—from Dennis Hastert’s hush money payments to victims of his abuse, to Larry Craig’s airport bathroom arrest, to Roy Ashburn’s DUI leaving a gay bar after 14 years of anti-LGBTQ votes.
The piece argues that the GOP’s current moral panic over transgender and non-binary Americans follows the same pattern of projection—attacking in others what they fear in themselves.
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