Exactly right. It has been a gradual process as not to alarm the rather gullible and ignorant masses. Incrementalism works particularly well on these types. Does anyone believe that Carter, for example, could have supported high school boys who think they are girls using girls locker rooms and gotten away with it? Virtually everyone would have looked at him like he was crazy, and rightfully so, and yet the some of those same people support that nonsense today because they have been slowly radicalized. The sad and scary part is they don't even recognize their radicalization, which is why I prefer to refer to it as brainwashing.