When a journalist sees his role as political, i.e. to support a particular set of beliefs and attitudes, then he stops being a journalist and a seeker after truth and becomes a party hack. With the election over and his party controlling the legislature, Phil Boas drops the mask and gives his intolerance and right wing tendencies full vent. The Democratic Party is a "smouldering mass of debris" he crows. Personally, I am aghast that a criminal is elected to the Presidency but the values Democrats espoused and Harris defined in her final speech still stand. Those are the values most Democrats fight for. Sexuality, like religion, is a sensitive topic. The solution in the old days to non conformity, religious or otherwise as many of Boas's ancestors discovered, was to burn and torture people. As he taps on his computer he might also remind himself that its inventor was forced to endure chemical castration. Americans in the 19th C. sincerely believed black people were subhuman and the thought of women voting laughable. That changed. We now know more about sexuality and gender identity and the issues are being debated hopefully sensibly and with sensitivity. Throwing a hammer at everything you don't like or agree with and calling it "toxic wokeness" is not the solution. It's bigotry.