Legacy media are aligned with the Democratic Party. They would like you to ignore the fact that the Democratic Party has never been less popular than it is now.

A new poll from The Wall Street Journal found that Democrats’ popularity is at its lowest point in three decades. Whatever the media keep telling you about the unpopularity of President Trump, Democrats remain far more unpopular. People may not like certain aspects of what President Trump is doing, but they do trust that Trump is going to be responsive to reality in a way that Democrats simply are not.

Democrats are in serious trouble. And the reason is because they are totally and completely out of touch.

Trump is winning an outsized share of Latinos, blacks, and Asian Americans. Why? Because the Democratic Party, as it took over all of America’s institutions, disconnected itself from normal Americans.

The Democratic Party made a couple of major mistakes. They decided to implement the most radical social values you could possibly imagine. The radical LGBTQ+-¸ wing of the Democratic Party alienated a number of minorities, many of whom are still very much ensconced in church and family. If the price of moving along with the Democrats is that you have to believe boys can become girls, that is a major issue for a huge number of Americans. And yet, Democrats seem preternaturally obsessed with that issue.

Another mistake: The elite members of the Democratic Party remain upper-crust white liberals and fellow travelers like Barack Obama, who made common cause with those upper-crust elite white liberals and felt very safe and comfortable in those particular circles.

There is a tendency among those elites to believe that all minorities feel the same way; there’s a flattening of all minority racial groups into one giant blob: “people of color.”

But that’s not the way anyone thinks of themselves. Nobody thinks of themselves that way. If you ask a white voter, they could be of Polish extraction or Italian extraction or Jewish extraction or German extraction or Irish extraction, among others. Each voter has their own agenda.

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There’s been an attempt in America to flatten all of these distinctions out. But those distinctions are very real in terms of how people see themselves in terms of identity.

So when you tell an Asian American that their interests are identical to those of a black American or tell a black American that his interests are identical to those of a Latino American, in some cases, the answer is yes, because we’re all individuals. But in some cases, the answer is very much no.

Optimism and hope for the future come from the Right, not the Left, for whom the racial identity is still the core of their political beliefs.

Appealing to disaffected voters of color on their racial identity alone has rung hollow.

President Trump has pointed the spear at one of the things that Americans hate most, which is this belief that if you say something outside of the purview of the Left, you ought to be canceled.

One of the effects of this has been a massive backlash. President Trump is the symptom and cause of this backlash against political correctness, wokeness, and cancel culture.

Someone being criticized is not cancel culture. Cancellation is when you lose a job or are removed from a platform.

The problem for the Left is that they decreased the so-called Overton Window — the window of acceptable discourse — to be so narrow that virtually everybody ended up being in danger of cancellation. And then President Trump blew the window wide open.

The era of the censorious Left, the upper-crust Harvard liberal who speaks down and patronizes minorities and then shuts the Overton window so nobody can speak differently, is ending.

Democrats don’t know what to do about it. So now they simply rage against the machine.

The Democratic Party is on the ropes — but there is an incipient danger. That danger comes in the form of the splintering that is happening on the Right.

With the destruction of the institutions by the Left, there are no replacements for the institutions. But there are people on the Right who believe the institutions need to be completely torn down.

It is a good thing that people look at institutions hollowed out by the left-wing with radical skepticism, and look to build new institutions or restore those institutions by kicking the Left out of those institutions and actually regaining credibility.

However, if the substitute for this is an atomized society in which you go to TikTok for your information or X.com for information, you’re going to end up with some pretty bad information.

And this is why conspiratorialism has soared on every side of the political aisle. Conspiratorial thinking speculates that there is an unnamed group of people who you can’t put a finger on, but you know they exist behind closed doors. They must be doing something nefarious and terrible, and therefore, you are not in control of your own life, and you then get to be very angry at someone.

That is not good for society or good politically. It is bad for you as a human to engage in that sort of thinking, because it means that you are essentially saying that you are not in control of your own future, you’re not in control of your own life, and there’s no prospect that you will be, because the shadowy forces control everything.

The Right has its work cut out for it; not to become the Left, but to champion the very ideas that distinguish it from the Left: strengthening traditional institutions with traditional principles, relying on facts rather than narratives that spring from conspiratorial thinking, and treating every human being as an individual with their own thoughts and feelings — without lumping them all together as one monolithic group.

The Federal Trade Commission is requesting public comment on so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors.

The inquiry seeks “to better understand how consumers may have been exposed to false or unsupported claims about ‘gender-affirming care’, especially as it relates to minors.” The FTC will accept “comment on any issues or concerns,” including “written data, advertisements, social media posts, disclosures, or empirical research,” a press release said.

The FTC is investigating whether minors and consumers have been harmed by transgender medical procedures and if medical professionals “have violated Sections 5 and 12 of the FTC Act by failing to disclose material risks associated with ‘gender-affirming care’ or making false or unsubstantiated claims about the benefits or effectiveness of ‘gender-affirming care.'”

The request for public comment is the latest in the FTC’s campaign against the transgender medical industry.

In May, The Daily Wire first reported on an FTC memo about a workshop on “gender-affirming care.” The FTC, an agency tasked with protecting American consumers, often holds workshops before initiating legal action against an industry.

“Under the Federal Trade Commission Act, the FTC is provided broad authority to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive trade acts and practices,” the memo said. “There is now considerable reason to believe that the doctors and medical providers pushing [gender-affirming care] on minors are knowingly deceiving parents by exaggerating [gender-affirming care’s] ‘benefits’ and downplaying its harmful side effects.”

The agency held the workshop on July 9 and featured academics, commentators, detransitioners, parents, and doctors, The Daily Wire reported.

“The issue of gender medicine has shattered political boundaries,” said Texas Children’s whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge. “Not because of ideology, but because of conscience. This is not a partisan battle, but a battle of good and evil.”

Detransitioner Claire Abernathy said medical professionals encouraged her to undergo transgender surgeries when she was too young to get a tattoo, too young to drive, and hadn’t even learned algebra.

“It’s not health care,” she said, “it’s blatant consumer fraud.”

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who moderated the panel, told the detransitioners and survivors, “The FTC hears you, we hear all of you, and we want to understand how the law is being broken.”

Department of Justice Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle said the DOJ has issued almost 20 subpoenas against clinics that are engaged in transgender transition attempts. The Justice Department’s investigations include health care fraud, false statements, and more.

Mizelle asked Americans to come forward if they could provide information about deceptive practices in the transgender medicine industry.

Both the workshop and the request for comment build on President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the federal government’s support for so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors. The FTC memo about the workshop noted that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals recently called transgender procedures “in truth still experimental.”

Before being selected for the position, Ferguson reportedly pitched Trump on using the agency to fight “against the trans agenda” before he was selected for the post, according to a document obtained by Punchbowl News in December 2024.

At the workshop, Ferguson said he doesn’t care about backlash from Democrats over the FTC’s action against transgender medical procedures.

“If there is this material deception going on in this market, it is picking on the most vulnerable human beings in America at the worst possible moment of their lives and brutalizing them,” Ferguson said. “And frankly, the ability of people to turn away from this and say ‘no action should be taken’ boggles my mind. So at the end of the day, it is the right thing to do.”

The public has until September 26 to submit comments at Regulations.gov. Comments will be posted once submitted.