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One may think that Wyoming is immune from a lot of our cultural insanity.

Most of their residents, after all, are the rugged individualist conservative types, meaning that their state politics should be ruby-red, at least in theory.

But like many other supposedly red states, their state capital is packed with fake conservatives who are merely progressive Democrats on a five-year or ten-year delay.

We have far too many Republicans in name only.

The same state which produced former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Wyoming Republican Representative Liz Cheney has also produced Wyoming Republican Governor Mark Gordon, who somehow has a mixed record on whether boys are boys and girls are girls.

Gordon signed a bill to ban most so-called sex-change operations, but he also criticized a bill that prohibited males from competing in high school female sports.

This should not be this confusing to him.

His most recent action on the issue was dismissing Eric Cubin, a radiologist who served on the Wyoming Board of Medicine, only a few weeks after his reappointment.

Cubin had dared to support a bill banning doctors from performing so-called sex-change surgeries on minors and from prescribing drugs to children “for the purposes of transitioning a child’s biological sex,” as also criticized the Wyoming Board of Medicine opposition to the bill.

The doctor, who questioned whether the Wyoming Board of Medicine was actually representing their members on the issue, has filed a lawsuit over Gordon dismissing him.

With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

This most recent incident of progressive insanity in a conservative state should be a valuable lesson to all of us. We cannot uncritically elect wokesters just because they are in the Republican Party. We have to elect actual conservatives who represent our interests.

That means we have to be involved not only in federal politics, but especially in state and local politics, and particularly in the primary races where conservative candidates emerge.

Otherwise we will continue to have child genital mutilation and a host of other progressive cultural ailments even in the most ruby-red corners of the country.