And that could be an attitudinal thing. Why should I care about how someone else personally identifies? Why should I be disparaging about something that will have minimal or no effect on me?
I think this is part of why some conservatives find themselves unwelcome. Being outwardly disparaging toward people does not make you friends.
Why should there be universal condemnation or acceptance?
"The left" is not a spec or rigidly defined ideological canon that all "leftists" conform to. As with "the right", "capitalists", "socialists" or any other political or cultural generalization, actual "leftists" can comprise a spectrum of acceptance or disagreement.
That may be. But I think the left will be even unhappier with Mr. Pence in office.
Remember, Trump was a Democrat for a long while before he was a Republican. (IMHO, he became a Republican solely because it was the easier party to hijack at the time.)
I agree with you, I just said the fact. I don't agree with it. I'm a communist so I don't think the liberal "left" in the US is really a left wing thing. It is more like a pendulum swinging right to right.
For instance, all the sex-and-ethnicity choosing going on. Totally without scientific merit, yet the left behaves as if it's science.
The pendulum swings both ways. Trump's election is a direct result of left-side hysteria and over-reach.