Originally published at crisis magazine
In what has been the greatest political achievement for the LGBTQ+ movement, President-elect Donald Trump last week named hedge fund executive and former partner at Soros Fund Management Scott Bessent to be the United States’ next Secretary of the Treasury. Bessent, who is in a civil marriage to a gay man with whom he is raising two children, had been a key proponent of philanthropist George Soros’ LGBTQ+ agenda. Charles Moran, president of Log Cabin Republicans (LCR)—the country’s leading conservative LGBT organization, which claims more than 10,000 members nationwide—hailed Bessent’s nomination as “a reminder of President Trump’s love and respect for LGBT Americans.”
Bessent’s nomination perhaps was a shock to many conservative Catholics and non-Catholics alike, just as the choice of now former House Representative Matt Gaetz as Attorney General was—before he withdrew his bid after he was mired by a series of allegations of sexual misconduct, including sex with a minor at a 2017 party. Bessent’s would-be appointment dispels liberal media and Democratic politicians who had made apocalyptic pronouncements about the supposed fascist dystopia that awaits the LGBTQ+ community under a second Trump administration. Yet, for those who believed that Donald Trump was anti-LGBTQ+ or woke from ensuring their
