One-time proposed Speaker of the House Byron Donalds amazingly undermines his own assertion of practicing tolerance while claiming that his Republican compatriots are exceptionally tolerant except for when they see anything that may trigger their unstable sexuality or gender identity.  As a sign of his “tolerance,” Donalds explains he doesn’t want to “engage” with anything that reminds him of things he doesn’t entirely condone when he leaves his home.  (And note that he slides in that conservative slur that LGBTQ people are living a “lifestyle” that “they choose to do.”  No, Byron, a “lifestyle” is toting a handgun or an assault rifle into a coffee shop or to a Little League game because you’re paranoid.)

Last note:  most people are just tolerant.  If you have a lifestyle and that’s what you choose to do, that’s fine, but don’t put that on me.  Don’t bring that into my home.  Don’t put that in front of me in every store I go to because I don’t want to engage in that.  I don’t agree with that.  That’s no disrespect to you and what you choose to do individually in your own person.  And I think that’s the standard people want to get to.  It’s really a standard of tolerance of each other’s views, each other’s ahh stands on these, on these very personal issues but to have them thrust into our politics the way this is, these, these campaigns companies are almost unilaterally are all doing it because they’re afraid of being targeted at the shareholder meetings or afraid of being boycotted by other groups.  That’s wrong.

“Don’t bring that into my home,” Donalds asserts without recognizing no one is forcing him to buy t-shirts at Target or Bud Light at your local store.  (Unless Byron lives in Housewares in Aisle 5.) But Donalds is completely okay with people brandishing assault weapons, handguns and other guns wherever they are.