Fashionable progressive ideas that have long been ascendant, including DEI and gender ideology, have received hammer blows since Trump’s inauguration, and there’s more to come.
The right just experienced its best three weeks in the culture war in 50 years.
Government played a role in the tide of left-wing cultural change, but it wasn’t necessarily the dominant one. If Barack Obama could use the threat of a cutoff of federal funds to impose star-chamber procedures on campuses in sexual assault cases, there’s no reason Trump can’t use the same tool for more rational ends.
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