I missed the metaphor overload. Guess I’m not quite as educated as I thought I was.
In a mere two sentences the writer, carried away by self-righeousness, throws in:
wind at our backs
doors of opportunity
doors nailed shut
(by the way, aren’t doors usually locked and windows nailed shut?)
sea change
James Taranto of the WSJ has ‘Metaphor Alerts’ for this sort of excessive and/or mixed-up cliche.
Almost invariably, the hack phraseology is used by media who are paid, and therefore expected, to know better and by the aforementioned leftists whose very thinking is unoriginal.