On Sunday, LGBT protesters decided to march through Los Angeles, shutting down traffic as they went,

before meeting up in gay Mecca West Hollywood, where they were treated to speeches from House

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, and, of course, RuPaul.

But the theme of the day was not tolerance and diversity.

It was hatred for President Trump.

Resist stickers, festooned garbage hands and telephone

polls. People milled about in anti-Trump t-shirts. In fact, the usual pride match was march was

recast into a resist march against the Trump administration, which is actually kind of weird,

given that Trump is pro-gay marriage and is the first politician to enter the White House with

that position. Monday marked the first anniversary of a jihadist massacring patrons at an Orlando gay nightclub.

An event, Trump marked by stating, quote, a radical Islamic terrorist targeted the nightclub,

not only because he wanted to kill Americans, but in order to execute gay and lesbian

citizens because of their sexual orientation. It's a strike at the heart and

soul of who we are as a nation. It's an assault on the ability of free people to live their lives,

love who they want, and express their identity. Trump is the first major Republican politician

to publicly loft a gay rainbow flag, but Trump is also the first Republican politicians to have

the honor of watching an LGBT march morph into a

movement against him personally, all of which shows that identity politics for the left is more

of a strategy than a principled adherence to the notion of protecting supposed minority

victims, while the left maintains that government must be bigger and stronger and more invasive

in order to protect the rights of various political

identity groups. And while the left polarizes those identity groups for political purposes,

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