Can Conservatives Keep it Between the Ditches Long Enough to Push the Culture War Front Line Back to the Status Quo Ante?
The predictable next phase of this nonsense is: conservatives go too far.
Then we'll have to deal with them.
One question is: can they keep it together long enough to eliminate the (hopefully vast) majority of cultural and political ground taken by the left over the past decade+? That is e.g.: stop the brainwashing and sexual mutilation of children, get CRT, DEI, ESG and the rest out of government (and businesses too) entirely, stamp out censorship (including the version masquerading as "anti-disinformation"), do something about universities...well, you know the list.
Obviously my concern is that the right will go crusading against the leftist jihad in bad ways before we've pushed them back in the ways that matter. See e.g. pushing Christianity in schools (my brother, a centrist Dem, was probably reachable until that shit happened), anti-abortion extremism, etc.
Answer: probably not.
It won't surprise me all that much if, ten years from now, the Pubs have lost their shit and some new version of the Moral Majority is rampaging through American politics...and the Dems have gone back to being some kind of roughly Clintonian centrists... Or the nightmare scenario: it's a neo-Moral-Majority vs. a still-thriving Woketarian cult...
But I don't think that's very likely. I just don't believe the American center will have faded into such irrelevance.
Also: some family is here for Thanksgiving, and I'm not going to think about that horrific timeline right now.
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