Florida’s Democratic Socialists of America Senate candidate Angie Nixon is now on record saying she’s taken her own children to drag shows and calls the events “wholesome” entertainment. That single admission is a window into the cultural agenda the left is trying to normalize: the deliberate blurring of adult sexual expression and childhood innocence. For the Second Amendment community, the lesson is straightforward—when politicians treat the sexualization of minors as a family-friendly outing, they are also the same politicians who want to decide which firearms you may own, how you may carry them, and whether your children will inherit a constitutional right to self-defense.

Nixon’s stance is not an outlier; it is the logical endpoint of a worldview that elevates identity politics above parental authority and biological reality. The same activists who insist that exposing kids to men in fishnets and heels is “inclusive” are the first to label an AR-15 in a locked safe as “dangerous.” Florida’s voters should recognize the pattern: every erosion of traditional norms is paired with an eagerness to erode the individual right to keep and bear arms. If a candidate sees nothing wrong with turning children into an audience for adult performance art, there is little reason to trust her judgment on the tools law-abiding citizens use to protect those same children.