President Donald Trump signed over 200 executive orders on his first day in office. “With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense,” Trump said in his second inaugural address. While some of the orders will fail, such as the one ending birthright citizenship, and some are largely symbolic rather than substantive, such as renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” the sheer number and scope of truly substantive orders is a reflection of how extreme and bizarre the federal government had become in the grip of former President Joe Biden’s radical White House staff.

Imagine telling the average American a decade ago that it would be necessary for a president to declare on his first day in office, as Trump did, that it is the “policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female. These are sexes that are not changeable, and they are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”