The progressive and often libertine trends in our popular culture — such as the rise of porn, small children being flaunted as drag queens with grown men in bars, abortion celebrated as a social good instead of mourned as a tragic but sometimes necessary decision, individual responsibility being replaced by government support, a certain kind of anti-Semitism, even the idea that America has never been great — were amorphous, faceless, a cultural cloud that could absorb any attack in its fog.

This is no longer the case. These once-faceless cultural trends now have faces, and very public ones. There now exist actual people with political power who can be compelled to answer for the conditions that lead to these cultural states. Progressivism as a whole could never be questioned directly as a unique thing capable of answering in one voice, but Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ilhan Omar are. They are capable of gaffes, and saying the quiet part out loud. Much like Cheney and Rumsfeld, they do so quite often.

This is where the American conservative cultural opportunity resides. We have been provided avatars of progressivism. Just as those who opposed the neocons pounded the avatars of that movement, so must conservatives attack Justice Democrats as the entity that can be embarrassed by forcing them to explain and make clear the absurdities of their ideas. They must be never allowed to duck questions.