Rahm Emanuel spars with New Yorker interviewer who grilled him for not emphasizing trans issues

Former Democratic Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel locked horns with The New Yorker’s David Remnick on Tuesday over whether the Democratic Party should still prioritize transgender issues.The former Chicago mayor is expected to be one of the Democratic Party’s potential candidates in 2028, and is one of many prominent Democrats who have spoken out numerous times about how they need to move away from far-left culture wars and focus on kitchen table issues.Remnick grilled Emanuel on this during his interview on "The New Yorker Radio Hour," noting, "You say you're, quote, ‘Done with the discussion of locker rooms.

I'm done with the discussion of bathrooms, and we better start having a conversation about the classroom.’ Now, bathrooms in this context, this means transgender rights in general."He added further, "You'd like Democrats to be done with that, but Republicans clearly aren't.

Should Democrats really be silent in response to attacks on trans people? It just seems that this line is clever, but it doesn't do service to some human beings who want their rights."RAHM EMANUEL WARNS NEW GENERATION OF DEM SOCIALISTS DON'T LIKE AMERICAEmanuel responded by both touting his success on education reform during his term as mayor as well as his early support for transgender access to bathrooms."

Well, two things. Since it's about education, and I spent a good part of my tenure, the entire tenure as mayor, taking the worst public school system to what Sean Reardon and Stanford called the single best. In 2016, I passed a law, a decade ago, on bathroom access," he replied.

"Did I take my eye off in the graduation rates that we took from 56% to 84%? Not a chance. That's why parents send kids to school.""

Why can't you do both?’ Remnick asked.Emanuel then appeared to argue that the Democrats, as a party, shifted toward far-left culture war initiatives rather than everyday issues that were critically important amid a pandemic."

Because you have an issue, in which coming out of COVID also is