The Trump administration has ignited a fresh political firestorm by directing the State Department to begin collecting reports of anti-Christian bias from within its ranks—a move that has left progressives outraged and legacy media scrambling to downplay it.

According to Politico, employees were instructed to report incidents of religious discrimination targeting Christians. While that might sound like common sense in a country founded on religious liberty, some federal workers responded with near hysteria. “It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one anonymous official reportedly said, revealing the left’s inability to separate reality from dystopian fiction.

That comparison isn’t new. Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California donned a “Entering Gilead” button at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast—an absurd reference to the fictional theocracy in The Handmaid’s Tale. He went on to call the breakfast “a slippery slope,” claiming the event was an example of “MAGA Republicans taking a sledgehammer to the wall between church and state.”

In other words, referencing Christianity in public is now treated as a dangerous signal of theocracy by the activist left. Meanwhile, that same crowd sees no issue with rainbow flags at embassies, DEI mandates in every agency, and drag queens reading stories to children on military bases.

What terrifies the left isn’t some “creepy dystopic theocracy,” as Huffman put it—it’s the idea that Christians might finally be treated fairly in a government that has increasingly shown hostility toward their values.

This latest effort from the Trump White House builds on a broader executive order to eliminate anti-Christian bias from the federal government. The Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, launched earlier this year, is charged with investigating how agencies—especially under the Biden administration—have suppressed religious freedom and allowed attacks on Christian organizations to go unanswered.

In the executive order, President Trump slammed Biden’s Justice Department for waging lawfare against peaceful pro-life protesters while doing virtually nothing after Catholic churches were firebombed and pregnancy centers vandalized in the wake of Dobbs. These weren’t isolated incidents—they were part of a sustained campaign of intimidation, and under Biden, federal agencies looked the other way.

Not surprisingly, corporate media rushed to mock the order. “Given Christianity’s dominance in U.S., Trump raises eyebrows with anti-Christian bias initiative,” sniffed the Associated Press in a headline that completely missed the point. A dominant religion, in their view, can’t possibly be the target of discrimination—never mind that practicing Christians have been fired, fined, and publicly shamed for refusing to bend the knee to secular dogma.

This is the same AP that bent over backwards to excuse the Nashville Covenant School shooter—a trans-identifying woman who murdered six Christians, including three children. Instead of focusing on the tragedy, the AP worried that “trans people face rhetoric” after the attack. In that twisted worldview, the real victim wasn’t the dead children—it was the ideology that radicalized their killer.

The anti-Christian double standard is baked into the media’s coverage, and that’s precisely why Trump’s crackdown matters. It’s a long-overdue correction to a government culture that has gone out of its way to protect every identity group except the one this country was built upon.

Critics claim that federal workers shouldn’t be subjected to “religious tests,” but no one’s being asked to convert. They’re simply being held to the same standards they apply to every other “protected class.” If Muslims, Jews, atheists, or LGBTQ employees can report perceived slights, then Christians—especially those who’ve been mocked or sidelined for expressing basic beliefs—deserve the same protections.

What the left fears isn’t Christian extremism—it’s accountability. And in Trump’s second term, they’re finally getting a taste of it.