The greatest trick the Democrats ever pulled was convincing the world that conservatives were American politics’ aggressors.
But now they’ve run out of rope.
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order compelling America’s schools to allow only women to compete in women’s sports, the usual suspects gnashed their teeth.
“Donald Trump signs a transgender sports ban that would affect less than 1% of student athletes,” sniped the left-wing website The Recount.
Washington governor Bob Ferguson called the order “unlawful and cruel,” while his attorney general opted for “dehumanizing.”
NPR published a story about Trump “curbing transgender rights.”
The talking point was as simple as it was ubiquitous: With a stroke of his pen, Trump had launched an unprovoked attack on an embattled community.
Balderdash.
In truth, it was the Democrats who declared cultural war on their political opponents and waged it unreservedly from the confines of the Oval Office.
Within hours of taking office a little over four years ago, President Joe Biden had signed an executive order asserting that “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.”
Another way of putting that is: Girls should not have the right to learn and compete without boys invading their most private, intimate spaces.
A year and a half later, Biden’s encore came in the form of another executive order directing the Department of Health and Human Services to “expand access” to euphemistic gender-affirming care.
In other words, the last president of the United States redefined human biology, forced a majority of American children to live with the repercussions of this lie, and encouraged others to take irreversible steps to actually live it.
Now that Trump has undone that evil, we’re meant to take him to be a power-hungry monster?
That dog doesn’t hunt anymore.
Americans have come to realize that for the most part, it’s not the right that is pushing an agenda.
It’s merely defending sanity from the left’s radical, minoritarian program.
As CNN’s Harry Enten observed during an illuminating segment on the left-leaning news network, Trump’s move to protect women’s spaces and sports “is probably the most popular thing he’s ever done.”
Seventy-nine percent of Americans — including 67% of Democrats — approved of the executive order Trump signed on Wednesday.
It’s an 80-20 issue, and Trump only took action on it after Biden tried to shove his neanderthal policy down the country’s throat.
This is an all too common phenomenon.
The left has threw a similar fit over the Trump administration’s rollback of environmental orders and programs championed by his predecessor — including a harebrained ban on new oil and gas development off of America’s coasts.
And his reinstatement of service members culled from the military by Biden’s vaccine mandate.
And his rescission of Biden’s efforts to ingrain the values of DEI into every nook and cranny of the federal government.
And the open border policies that would have destroyed Biden’s legacy even if he hadn’t failed in every other aspect of his presidency.
Their shrill wails have fallen on deaf ears, though; Trump is more popular than ever.
Not because the country approves of everything he’s done, but because they recognize that so much of what he is doing is simply remedying the damage Biden wrought by executive fiat.
For the better part of the last half-century, progressives have made political hay out of a false narrative.
Namely, that their movement represents a bulwark against an authoritarian movement intent on funneling power to the presidency and stripping Americans of their rights
In truth, though, it has principally been Democrats who have sought to circumvent the constitutional order to impose their will.
In large part, that has come in the form of the kind of executive action so adored by Biden and Barack Obama (remember DACA?).
But it’s also been advanced by the Supreme Court, which asserted its own power to advance progressive policies.
This strategy, which was supplemented by melodramatic wails every time conservatives pushed back, paid dividends for decades.
But now the Democratic Party has drifted so far to the left — and done so much harm — that it has at long last opened Americans’ eyes to its duplicity.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
