This might be Tucker Carlson at his best, as he sets aflame the Biden administration for the histrionics and idiocies surrounding the signing ceremony for the Respect for Marriage Act.

Carlson’s main point is very well made – namely, that all of this gay and trans advocacy Team Biden won’t stop engaging in, including parading drag queens into the White House again and again, isn’t just a bludgeon against the traditional Americans upon whom the Democrat Party has declared war.

It is that, but the war was declared for a reason.

The cultural aggressions of the Hard Left are about sexualizing your kids and demoralizing you in an effort to break up the nuclear family, which is the basis of a free society. Heretofore, though, that stuff was done in more or less a clandestine fashion. It happens at the public library, at your kids’ school, at the movie theater, in the music your kids listen to, in subtle – and not-so-subtle – grooming on TV.

But now it’s wide open at the White House.

And it’s happening because while the degradation of our culture might be the worst problem in our society, as a matter of politics it’s a cheap and distracting fight. The Respect for Marriage Act is almost certainly going to be blown up in the courts, because it’s an assault on religious freedom and the First Amendment.

But the furor over it is a pretty good way to distract people from the economic death of the country. For example, have you heard what BlackRock has to say about the future?

Experts are divided about whether the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases will cause a recession.

Count BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, as one institution that thinks it will.

We are seeing a new regime “play out in persistent inflation and output volatility, in central banks pushing policy rates up to levels that damage economic activity, rising bond yields and ongoing pressure on risk assets,” according to a commentary from BlackRock Investment Institute.

“Central bankers won’t ride to the rescue when growth slows in this new regime, contrary to what investors have come to expect. They are deliberately causing recessions by overtightening policy to try to rein in inflation. That makes recession foretold.”

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“We see central banks eventually backing off from rate hikes [next year], as the economic damage becomes reality,” BlackRock strategists said. “We expect inflation to cool but stay persistently higher than central bank targets of 2%.”

We’re not fans of BlackRock by any means, but that’s irrelevant. Here you have a major Wall Street hedge fund talking in language usually reserved for the gold bugs and preppers, and what’s Joe Biden doing? Playing patty cake with Cyndi Lauper and a bunch of drag queens while Jerry Nadler soils himself, again, and Lady Gaga plays in the background.

Yes, it’s Nero fiddling while Rome burns. But there is value, to Nero, in fiddling. Were he to try to put the fire out people might notice that he can’t.

They’re putting their cultural aggressions in your face not because they think you’ll accept it but because they’d rather lose that fight while silently reordering the economy and the political infrastructure of the nation in ways you would never tolerate.

And that’s the real game they’re playing. Good for Carlson that he sees it.