The Democrats Insanity Defense – Tablet Magazine
The result, for anyone skeptical of the Democratic Party yet bound to operate within the consensus reality of its discourse, is akin to living in a wilderness of mirrors. How to explain, for instance, that elected Democrats from the Biden White House on down support not only taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens, but policies that allow schools to socially transition children without informing their parents? How to explain, without sounding like a lunatic, that the newspapers and expert bodies that recommend life-altering surgeries for children, and defend them as life-saving or medically necessary care opposed only by cranks and Bible thumpers, either don t know what they re talking about or are lying to you for political reasons? That the claim that such surgeries were rarely if ever performed on children was also a lie? That when President Biden, the kindly old moderate, directed his Department of Health and Human Services to address the barriers and exclusionary policies keeping children from accessing gender medicine, what he was describing was a policy that would see members of his own administration pressuring medical agencies to allow procedures such as breast and penis removal be performed on young children, despite the lack of any proof that these measures contribute to greater mental or physical health?
The same GOP staffer, who is currently working on a competitive congressional race, told me that one problem his campaign regularly faces is that aspects of Democratic governance are simply too insane for voters to find credible, even when they are documented as official U.S. government policy. When you outline the Democratic agenda, you have to water it down, because in both polling and focus groups, people just don t believe it, he said. They are critical of things like boys in girls sports, but they tune out stuff about schools not informing parents about transitioning their children. They just don t believe it s true. It can t be.
Park MacDougald.