For those keeping score, it’s Trump 1, Marcuse 0.
The Right just experienced its best three weeks in the culture war in 50 years.
A blitz of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump have taken dead aim at left-wing cultural priorities and pillars of the Left’s cultural influence.
Fashionable progressive ideas that have long been ascendant, including DEI and gender ideology, have received hammerblows since Trump’s inauguration, and there’s more to come.
Never before has control of the executive branch of the federal government had such potentially momentous cultural significance.
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