Who Exactly Is ‘Obsessed’ with Bathrooms?

It may be one of the great non sequiturs of all time: “Bathrooms are where we feel most vulnerable. No wonder Republicans are obsessed.”

That was the headline that graced New York Times opinion writer Lydia Polgreen’s latest op-ed on Friday morning before the Times thought better of it. That headline was quickly replaced with a modestly more specific but equally tendentious claim: “Ron DeSantis Knows That the Best Place to Humiliate People Is in the Bathroom.”