Ten years ago I never expected that I would become a fervent culture warrior.
Sure, I cared about cultural issues, but as a libertarianish conservative, I cared more about taxes, spending, and regulation. I would, with exceptions, accept the idea that culture-war issues were best left to the extremists on both sides because the real ideological war was between socialists and free marketeers.
Sometime over the past decade, I realized that without winning the culture war all else would be lost. The neo-Marxists were on a mission to destroy Western culture, and if we didn't save it the world would enter a new totalitarian age where the only "liberty" allowed would be sexual licentiousness and the right to be drug-addled.
Over the past few years, the movement to destroy Western values has been taking cultural territory at a breakneck pace. Our universities, our K-12 schools, the news media, and governments at all levels have been recruiters for the most radical social ideology ever seen in the world, and the Biden administration has led the way.
It was just a clump of data https://t.co/qDkzvbAj2e
— Patrick Neve (@catholicpat) January 21, 2025
Donald Trump took an axe to the government infrastructure that has enabled all this to happen. With the swipe of his pen, he banned gender ideology, DEI, abortion activism, open borders, and the fentanyl importation that has been promoted, and he had dedicated enormous energy to wiping all vestiges of this poisonous ideology from the federal government.
The Biden Administration perversely used Title IX to rob women of the same opportunities Title IX was instituted to protect.
— Bob Onder (@RepBobOnder) January 14, 2025
To accept men in women's sports is to destroy women's sports! pic.twitter.com/gZobnTVYjN
Among the many executive orders signed by Trump on Day 1 were many that made my heart swell. He defined sex as dimorphic, reversed Biden's outrageous Title IX revisions, booted DEI out the door, and made clear that a new day had dawned in America.
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— Glenna Goldis (@glennagoldis) January 21, 2025
Feelings will be hurt. pic.twitter.com/rzzKcXEbnA
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— Glenna Goldis (@glennagoldis) January 21, 2025
Drumroll for the definitions.
No ambiguity.
Later the EO says HHS will follow up with "guidance expanding" on these. pic.twitter.com/tHuXN3h9F9
Trump's attacks on alphabet ideology aren't just sweeping but comprehensively explained. Clearly, Trump's administration understands the importance of the cultural battle and where it should be fought. Trump obviously has no animus toward people with alternative sexual preferences, but he understands that "Queer" culture--not alternative sexualities, but alternative views of what is culturally promoted--is toxic.
🚨Trump has rescinded the Biden EO on gender identity used to revise Title IX regulations in schools. The last leg on that table has been swept into history. https://t.co/QoaLAqYuFn pic.twitter.com/iJNbOiEJdk
— TheLegalProcess (v3.0 | Instruction Not Therapy) (@ALegalProcess) January 21, 2025
Citizens' tax dollars will no longer be used to promote LGBTQIA radicalism around the world. Under Biden, the State Department has been flying transgender pride flags at the Vatican, funding drag shows, and recruiting alphabet voters around the world as if that is the point of our diplomacy.
Department of State grant (2024)
— RandoLand.us (@RandoLand_us) January 21, 2025
Amount: $40,000
Recipient: Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees
Purpose: Enhance the participation of 600 LGBTQI+ persons in the 2025 electoral process through capacity building, registration on the electoral lists, in Yaounde, in the center region.…
Executive orders don't change the culture of radicalism in our elite institutions, but they can make these institutions increasingly irrelevant, bolster the culture of common sense, and demoralize the opposition which so recently has been at the apex of its power.
On his first day in office, President Trump signed dozens of executive orders completely undoing the Democrats’ federal DEI, trans agenda and mass migration policies. Watch my @lotuseaters_com appearance discussing the brutal Trump revenge on wokeness: pic.twitter.com/YbZ8bLgKTN
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 21, 2025
Most importantly, Trump has given people permission to object. Until recently, people were putting their careers and social standing in jeopardy for merely questioning the orthodoxy. Now people are liberated to speak their minds, and their minds are opposed to this dangerous nonsense.
LINK: Most Americans Don't Support Top Trans-Activist Goals, NYT Poll Findshttps://t.co/3qHPZsZ966
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) January 18, 2025
A Times opinion poll found that the majority of Democrats think women's sports should be restricted according to sex, not gender identity, and that minors shouldn't have access to… pic.twitter.com/3bfOi1xIxl
Something important happened during the campaign: it became OK to speak your mind again. At first the change was tentative, and now it is turning into a flood. Progressive ideology is losing its power to intimidate. It's still out there, but it will be more and more marginalized.
Corporations are dropping their DEI programs, female athletes are speaking up, Americans are vocally objecting to alphabet ideology, and the courts are pushing back on institutions punishing people for speaking their conscience.
Journalists Horrified As Village People Perform Double Hitler Salute https://t.co/vffSdlY7r1 pic.twitter.com/BTXCBBKBzS
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 21, 2025
Trump is the oddest vehicle one could imagine for the recreation of a socially healthy culture. He is hardly the avatar of virtue, but in many ways, that is the reason why he can do this in a "Nixon goes to China" way. Trump is not thumping on a Bible exhorting us to chastity or sainthood; he is making a case for common sense and tolerance of different lifestyles and diverse points of view.
Now, ban federal funding for schools that fly political flags like BLM and Pride flags. Federal, State, and POW flags only.
Please.
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