MAGA’s opponents need to clean up their own house if they want to win in future elections.

2025-04-14

By promoting two irrational ideologies, neoracism and sex-binary denialism, the opponents of MAGA have allowed Trump to occupy the moral high ground on these issues. Thanks to the post-left, Trump and his MAGA allies can claim to be protecting women’s and children’s rights and fighting against racism.

Sommaire en français En faisant la promotion de deux idéologies irrationnelles, le néoracisme et le déni de la binarité du sexe, les opposants à MAGA ont permis à Trump d’occuper une position morale supérieure sur ces questions. Grâce à la post-gauche, Trump et ses alliés MAGA peuvent prétendre protéger les droits des femmes et des enfants et lutter contre le racisme.
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I have written several times about the movement which claims to represent the political left but which has abandoned the very principles—such as universalism, objectivity, secularism and freedom of expression—on which the left was founded. That political movement is often referred to as “wokism,” but I prefer to call it the post-left or the anti-Enlightenment pseudo-left. Now that Donald Trump and his MAGA cronies have taken control in the USA, we now have a major power whose government is explicitly—or at least claims to be—“anti-woke.” So the situation has changed, but much remains the same.

The post-leftists and the MAGA types whom they vilify have a few things in common ^[2], such as their illiberalism and lack of objectivity. In particular, they both consider the woke to be the political left ^[3], just as the post-leftists claim. This flatters the arrogance of post-leftists, while the political right (such as MAGA) love this idea because it allows them to dismiss the “left” as irrational and sometimes insane, as indeed the post-leftists tend to be. In the USA, there is no left left.

In the weeks following January 20^th 2025, when Donald Trump acceded to the USA presidency, he issued a flurry of executive orders on a variety of issues. But two issues in particular stand out.

1. Racism and antiracism ^[4], addressed by the following documents:
   • EXECUTIVE ORDER: Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing ^[5], White House, USA, 2025-01-20.
   • Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity ^[6], White House, USA, 2025-01-21.
   • FACT SHEET: President Donald J. Trump Protects Civil Rights and Merit-Based Opportunity by Ending Illegal DEI ^[7], White House, USA, 2025-01-22.
   • EXECUTIVE ORDER: Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling ^[8], White House, USA, 2025-01-29.
2. Gender ideology ^[9], addressed by the following documents:
   • EXECUTIVE ORDER: Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government ^[10], White House, USA, 2025-01-20.
   • EXECUTIVE ORDER: Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation ^[11], White House, USA, 2025-01-28.
   • EXECUTIVE ORDER: Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports ^[12], White House, USA, 2025-02-05.

These Trump directives are direct attacks on two ideologies championed by the post-left.
(1) Neoracism ^[13] or racialism, the theoretical underpinning of DEI programs (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), an ideology which claims to be antiracist but in fact promotes racism by rejecting colour-blindness, by elevating racial identity to primary importance and by asserting that only “white” people can be racist and are in fact inevitably and essentially racist, by birth!
(2) Sex-binary denialism ^[14], which asserts that biological sex is not binary, this being the theoretical underpinning of the insane policy of self-identification, i.e. allowing a person to change their sex by a mere verbal declaration to that effect, as well as the harmful practice of applying so-called “gender-affirming care” to minor persons. This “care” is generally a euphemism for medical mutilation, using surgery and/or powerful drugs, which should rarely, if ever, be applied to minors.

By promoting these two irrational ideologies, neoracism and sex-binary denialism, the opponents of MAGA have allowed Trump to occupy the moral high ground on these issues. Thanks to the post-left, Trump and his MAGA allies can claim to be protecting women’s and children’s rights and fighting against racism. Thanks to the Democratic party’s support for these two preposterous ideologies, many otherwise undecided voters ended up voting for Trump in the November 2024 election. As comedian Bill Maher has pointed out ^[15], with brutal honesty, the Democrats “lost a crazy contest to an actual crazy person.” As a result, the presidency of a very powerful nation is now occupied by an unstable, narcissistic, incompetent fool.

One of the decisions of this incompetent MAGA regime has been a campaign of censorship of hundreds of words and expressions on government websites and in official documents ^[16], expressions such as abortion, climate crisis, DEI, diversity, equity, feminism, gay, gender, Gulf of Mexico, inclusion, intersectionality, race, trans, vaccines and many others. This is, of course, absurd and a serious threat to freedom of expression in that country. How can Americans discuss and criticize the ideologies promoted by the post-left, ideologies which MAGA types claim to oppose, if they cannot even use the words necessary to describe them?

…they should stop supporting these two ideologies because that is the right thing to do, ethically and objectively. DEI programs are racist. Sex-binary denialism is pseudoscientific…

If the Democrats want to win in future elections—the mid-term election in 2026 or the presidential in 2028—they will have to get serious and drop their support for neoracism and sex-binary denialism. Of course, even regardless of elections, they should stop supporting these two ideologies because that is the right thing to do, ethically and objectively. DEI programs are racist. Sex-binary denialism is pseudoscientific, while self-id undermines human rights. Furthermore, the proponents of these ideologies are so dogmatic that they often defame anyone who disagrees in any way.

Will the opponents of Trump and MAGA learn from their past mistakes and smarten up in future? I am not optimistic. I expect that they will double down and continue to support harmful, false ideologies while claiming to be the voice of reason and virtue. I hope that they prove me wrong.

Next blog: Les trois innocentes ^[17]