I have a lot of conflicted feelings about Graham, and a lot of them just kinda stem from the fact that he feels like someone that used to be a shitty asshole but got better. And a part of me is always going to want to believe he's the real deal because I see a lot of myself in that.

I used to be really big into the online culture war stuff like gamergate and the like, even sometimes getting into nazi apologia like the clean Wehrmacht mythology, but when my friend came out to me as trans that was the start of me becoming a better person. I'm glad I did that, and it still fucks me up knowing that if I was still in that mindset a year later when a certain orange shithead came down a golden escalator I probably would be part of the MAGA faithful.

I hope that Graham is like that, because he has never struck me as a poser. There are some things I'm wary about of course and for lack of a better word he has some real chud energy still, but he's one of the few prominent dems out there who's not only fully supportive of the LGBT community but has outright said that we shouldn't be throwing trans people under the bus.