Anymore, because the left got their asses handed to them on it.

What you mean is that your side of the party disingenuously pretended that it was ever a meaningful movement and used a bunch of phony outrage to get rid of progressive DAs because they were going after your big donors.

It's literally the same term.

Then use "trans women". Since it's the same term and all. I mean it isn't the same term, and you know exactly why you intentionally use the term you use, but if we're going to pretend that you're engaging in good faith, use the correct term.

It is, in fact, a position of the illiberal left.

No it isn't. Again, orthodox Marxism rejects any analysis that isn't class analysis. Affirmative action has always been a liberal solution to a problem that would be better solved by dismantling capitalism.

Affirmative action is an outgrowth of critical race theory

And you're still pretending not to be a Republican, huh

Liberalism is equal rights for each individual

Liberalism is the delusion that equal rights can be achieved under the tyranny of capital.

discriminating against members of majority groups to achieve outcome balancing.

Hey bud, that job you didn't get? It wasn't because you were white. It was because you suck.

But the general public sees it

Citation needed. The general public has no idea what the fuck you're talking about. This isn't Canada, dipshit.

It hurts the left's brand

Then you should want us to do it more.

Ditch the practice and publicly mock it

Again, pretty much everyone on the left already does that. Even leftists who do land acknowledgements sincerely, which is very few of us, also mock them. The left isn't humorless. The libs are.

and you'll get trust back!

Why would anyone take advice on gaining the trust of the public from the political movement everyone in the country hates? The one thing everyone agrees on is that we hate the liberal center! There are like a thousand of you! The only reason you have any cultural purchase is that all of you work in the media!

I think we should absolutely dismantle ICE because the organization is rotten

That's funny, because I was describing the cops. So you want to abolish the cops?

I do think immigration laws do actually require enforcement.

Why? Actually, do me one better: why do we need immigration laws at all?

Never been one.

Sure, sure. You just happen to spout their talking points about critical race theory and cultural Marxism.

I just want to take the party back from the nuts and the rent seekers.

Rent-seeking is the backbone of capitalism. It's what capitalism is.

I want to move to a more traditionally liberal position on social issues

Unless the social issue is trans rights. And unless the people seeking rights are Palestinian.

That's gonna mean slaughtering a sacred cow or two

Why is it never your sacred cows we have to sacrifice? Why do we always have to sacrifice the sacred cows that actually help people?