This would be a much more compelling argument if it didn’t ignore the way the right has also become more irreligious.
It has abandoned the pro life platform on the national level, has abandoned principles of human dignity from the Judeo-Christian tradition like Habeas Corpus, has embraced a shamelessness about lying and misrepresenting the facts (see Signalgate) and has no regard for the moral character of its leaders.
Christian Nationalists want to pretend they “know what time it is” and are riding a right wing wave for power that will advance their means. They literally fantasize that the whole movement is best expressed by JD Vance’s Catholic Buchananism.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk continues to impregnate as many random women as possible, right wing influencers embrace and celebrate Andrew Tate, and MAGA leaders lie like it’s their very breath.
Yes, the left has become wildly more progressive.
But the right has become wildly more amoral, and focused on the politics of power.
To acknowledge one without the other is actually just an embrace of raw partisanship.
“Third way-ism” never looked so good.
There is also a considerable amount of irony in this statement, since FL schools will soon be unable to even properly teach about slavery thanks to the same “conservative religious right”.
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“The principal impetus for the abolition of slavery came first from very conservative religious activists - people who would today be called ‘the religious right’.” - Thomas Sowell
First, I don’t think this is even remotely true.
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The “principal impetus” was obviously the enslaved people themselves. There is no way to understate the desire for their own freedom and their efforts to emancipate themselves. Harriet Tubman deserves a nod well above the “conservative religious right”.
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