

To his MAGA mom, accepting trans folks while retaining every other right wing shit view would be considered ‘leaning left’ because when you start off at the extreme even slightly approaching the center is considered ‘leaning more to the left’.
That isn’t the same as ‘left leaning’ as used by anyone else.
There is literally zero chance that there were two separate incidents shortly after the guy saying that shit that weren’t related in any way.