Immensely Affectionate Undead ~ Ultra-Passionate!!

On the most zoomed out and least loaded level I can think of, it is basically axiomatic that large military operation by any organized and armed force will commit some atrocities. It's one of the reasons people say (but mostly don't believe) that crimes of aggression are the most serious and foundational war crimes of all. Despite this, basically no one on here who has ever picked a side in a conflict as 'the good ones' seems capable of accepting their guys might have done a massacre or tortured prisoners or abused civilian populations.

Certainly people seem incredibly resistant to accepting that states or administrations (or even specific policies and projects) that they consider praiseworthy has some price in blood and tears. The reaction to first-hand accounts of said price are usually reacted to as entirely bad-faith propaganda.

Democrats fail to challenge their narratives and instead try to distance themselves from the issue.

Republicans get free reign over how trans people are framed in the public consciousness.

Democrats decide trans people are too unpopular after all and it would be best to throw them under the bus to be more electable.

"Unlike the civil rights movement, which was based on prejudice over something that doesn't really matter, homosexuality strikes at some of our most fundamental intuitions and beliefs about the nature of men, women, and society, so the left is crazy if they think the issue will ever be anything but deeply controversial."

And now, about a decade later, we get,

Genuinely what do people like this think is going to happen if they adopt and legitimize the framing of their opponents at the expense of their own base in an increasingly polarized world?