Rep. Mark Pocan knows Donald Trump’s cult must be defeated to achieve equality

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Rep. Mark Pocan knows Donald Trump’s cult must be defeated to achieve equality

Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI) has laid out a path forward for LGBTQ+ equality, which prioritizes defeating Donald Trump in November and pushing the right’s more extreme elements out of the mainstream Republican party. Americans can be convinced to support LGBTQ+ rights, but Trumpism — or, in Pocan’s words, “that hate, base-only mentality” — must be divorced from the Republican party. Because, outside the most right-wing parts of the GOP base, th…