By Steve Levy
Many are attributing Donald Trump‘s victory over Kamala Harris to his enormously effective “they/them” ad hitting Harris on her support for taxpayer-financed sex-change operations for prisoners and illegal aliens.
But it’s not the trans issue itself that’s so resonant here, as much as it was a highlighting of how crazy, in general, the left has become.
Until these late campaign ads, those voters addicted to outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times or The Washington Post were totally shielded from these insane positions that the left had long been peddling.
Trump’s “they/them” ad was so effective because it used Harris’ own words, and it even showed a clip of Charlemagne tha God criticizing Harris’ extreme view. It could no longer be denied, even by the most loyal leftist trooper.
Now, the average middle-of-the-road Democrat, who never heard of such insanity from their regular news sources, had to scratch their head as to how their candidate could be so irrational. And if it was true that she was advocating the use of taxpayer money to fund sex changes for illegal aliens, all of those other accusations that were coming from the right that, at first blush, seemed crazy, were probably true as well.
I wrote in previous articles that, while Bernie Sanders lost his primaries in 2016 and 2020, he ultimately triumphed on his policy platform. Joe Biden, who ran on the platform of being a moderate conciliator who could reach across the aisle, instead made a deal with Sanders and the “Squad” to implement their policy if they would rally their support around him in 2020. And he followed through in spades.
Thus began the road toward insanity.
Here’s just a sampling of some of the lunacy that the left has incorporated in its agenda nationwide:
- Overreacting to the George Floyd killing by calling for a defunding of the police.
- In California, government-sponsored guaranteed minimum incomes, but only if you were transgender.
- Licenses for legal pot shops in New York, but only if you had previously been convicted of a marijuana or other drug-related crimes.
- Voting rights for illegals for school board members and in local elections in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.
- Making it a crime in California to tell parents if their children were identifying as a different gender in school.
- Removing Abraham Lincoln‘s name from a school and tearing down the statue of Teddy Roosevelt at the Museum of Natural History.
- Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s decree banning the purchase of plant seeds during Covid.
- Allowing liquor stores to stay open during COVID, but prohibiting outdoor church services.
- Covid loans for farmers, but only if they were African-American.
- The Democratic DOJ labeling Catholics attending Latin mass as terrorists and sending SWAT teams to the home of peaceful anti-abortion protesters.
- Prohibiting laws that would require voter ID for illegals, and fighting efforts to remove known illegal aliens from the voter rolls.
- Giving billions of dollars to Iran, a country that has vowed to kill us.
- Prohibiting the export of American natural gas to nations in Europe, while signing off on a Russian pipeline to provide them with their energy needs.
- The Biden administration pressuring social media companies to take down posts that were critical of administration policy.
- Unconstitutional laws that prevented landlords from evicting delinquent tenants.
- Pressuring private businesses to have a quota of gay and minority board members.
- Laws that ban the purchase of gas stoves or non-electric vehicles.
- Requiring schoolchildren to buy into the historically faulty 1619 Project that says America was not born out of a desire to break free from British tyranny, but rather to establish a slave enclave in the New World.
- Removing due process for male students on campus accused of sexual harassment or assault- no opportunity to know your accuser or confront him or her or to have cross-examination.
- Letting thousands of violent criminals go free, yet initially indicting a bodega owner who stabbed a person trying to murder him in his store.
- Opposing school choice, even though it’s been proven to increase performance, and is supported by the overwhelming number of minority parents in inner cities.
- Dealing with lower school test scores by lowering the passing grade from 65 to 50 and removing the need for end-of-year Regents exams.
- Supporting curriculum that promotes students having access to blatantly pornographic materials.
- Establishing of sanctuary cities, which shield violent illegal aliens from federal apprehension.
- Doling out $10,000 to New York City rioters in the summer of 2020, in a case brought against the NYPD.
- In California, a law requiring stores to have a gender-neutral toy section.
- Proposals that would pay parents for simply sending their truant kids to school.
- In New York and Pennsylvania, banning the use of Native American logos such as Indians, Chiefs and Warriors in our local schools.
- Refusing to discipline violent, unruly students because students of color wind up being involved in more of these incidents.
So, you see, it wasn’t the trans issue itself that crushed the Dems; it was the entire tone-deaf radical mindset that had become mainstreamed in a party that once represented the common man and woman.
Steve Levy is President of Common Sense Strategies, a political consulting firm. He served as Suffolk County Executive, as a NYS Assemblyman, and host of “The Steve Levy Radio Show.” He is the author of “Solutions to America’s Problems” and “Bias in the Media.” www.SteveLevy.info, Twitter @SteveLevyNY, steve@commonsensestrategies.com