MARK STEYN: The War on Reality.

I see Rahm Emanuel is complaining that “Democrats have lost touch with Roosevelt, Johnson and Truman“. You would have thought the easiest way to get back on the road to the little haberdasher’s would be to abandon the transanity. As Eva Vlaardingerbroek said on The Mark Steyn Show way back when, in her experience it’s the issue on which even otherwise doctrinaire liberals are a bit queasy – and that’s before the trannies open fire.

And yet the left is not walking back the transanity. Rather, they have no desire to give it up. As for the right, a decade or more back, when I used to bring this up on Rush, I used to get callers dialling in to denounce me for wasting their time: “This isn’t anything important, Steyn. Why don’t you try talking about the stuff that matters – like whether John Kasich or Phil Gramm is two points up in Iowa?”

Because while you’re having wet dreams about Lamar Alexander in his Brooks Brothers plaid shirt, the left is calling madness to the regeneration of the world. Because, while you’re playing small ball, they play humungous supertrannifragalistic balls. So now, a half-century ahead of schedule, they’ve just taken out one of the few figures on the right who genuinely connected with the young. The idea that “gender” is just something randomly “assigned at birth” with the maternity-ward matron wandering around passing out “internal” and “external genitalia” from an Obamacare grab-bag is an 80/20 issue. But back in my Rush days it was a 95/5 issue – and the current twenty per cent is everyone who matters: teachers, doctors, media, mainline “churches”, Supreme Court judges…

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