Obama Reignites the Culture Wars

“While the Obama administration’s directive on bathroom access for transgender students was praised by supporters as a historic moment for civil rights, the sweeping new rules have re-energized the right — and a top lawmaker in Texas even argues that Donald Trump can use the issue as a springboard to the White House,” Politico reports.

“The right has been consistently losing culture-war fights in the courts during the Obama era, most significantly in the Supreme Court case last year that legalized gay marriage. Now, conservative governors, state officials, education advocates and parent groups have extra motivation to unify in their revolt against a federal intervention directed by a president they loathe that will affect every public school in the nation.”

The Washington Post reports that some accused Obama “of overstepping his authority with an unwanted edict that they say forces schools to allow men into girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.”