The right begins to turn on Glenn Youngkin after discovering he has an out staffer

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Despite standing against marriage equality and largely basing his campaign around attacking trans people, prominent conservatives are turning on Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) for daring to have at least one single out person on staff.  The presence of the staffer, and his inclusion of pronouns in his social media bios, has led to Youngkin being deemed an “establishment disappointment,” and proof that Youngkin will put a “knife in people’s backs” and commit to more of the same “squishy GOP grift” in office.

Meanwhile, the Republican staffer is being attacked across conservatives circles on social media, with Youngkin staff and Log Cabin Republicans coming to his defense from conservative media and far-right advocates.

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The Daily Beast reports that the “controversy” around Youngkin’s staffer is one of several recent criticisms of the governor-to-be and former private equity corporation CEO, showing that the right may have “buyer’s remorse” just days after helping to push Youngkin defeated Terry McAuliffe.

One reason is their discovery that Youngkin has a communications aide named Joshua Marin-Mora, a recent Georgetown University graduate who was previously an intern at the conservative legal advocacy group New Civil Liberties Alliance, which filed a brief against protecting LGBTQ people from discrimination in the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton Co. proceedings in 2020.

Yet, the right is still lampooning the staffer as a potential “woke far-leftist” because he had his pronouns listed on social media.

Several conservatives began analyzing Marin-Mora’s social media and online activity, with right-wing blog RedState claiming that he likely is a…

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