Interesting times. For a moment there economic and social attitudes sorted into the parties. The left conservatives like Jennings Bryan were sucked into the black hole of racial hatred and came out converted to economic conservatism as the last open path towards de facto segregation. And then the left got taken over by the Brahmins (to steal a term from Piketty) and there was no one on the economic left. Interesting to see what happens over the next 10-20 years as things reshuffle to fill a few different vaccuums!
I'm confused. I don't even get what point you're trying to make about Vance, or anyone else. Apparently, he's bad because he's Trump's VP candidate, and what kind of yahoo would do THAT? It seems to me you are having to go deep into the weeds to find anything bad to say about the man.
If you have to work that hard at it, then maybe it's not worth the trouble. What are you trying to accomplish?
Ross Douthat is a Catholic zealot like Vance. The U.S. was founded on the concept of separation of Church and state just to avoid the religious wars raging in Europe at the time.
"Their faith confirms that liberalism is the great enemy that must be fought and defeated so that something more wholesome and spiritually invigorating can take its place. But until liberalism has been expunged from the world, Christianity remains mainly a civilizational symbol or identity marker whose public substance is held in abeyance.
That’s quite a shift for the Catholic right in a single generation. Not long ago, the group insisted on a near-perfect identification between the Church and American liberalism as expressed by the Republican Party. Now it insists on the discontinuity between Christianity and America’s ruling ideology, which requires nothing short of political revolution to overcome."
Interesting times. For a moment there economic and social attitudes sorted into the parties. The left conservatives like Jennings Bryan were sucked into the black hole of racial hatred and came out converted to economic conservatism as the last open path towards de facto segregation. And then the left got taken over by the Brahmins (to steal a term from Piketty) and there was no one on the economic left. Interesting to see what happens over the next 10-20 years as things reshuffle to fill a few different vaccuums!
I'm confused. I don't even get what point you're trying to make about Vance, or anyone else. Apparently, he's bad because he's Trump's VP candidate, and what kind of yahoo would do THAT? It seems to me you are having to go deep into the weeds to find anything bad to say about the man.
If you have to work that hard at it, then maybe it's not worth the trouble. What are you trying to accomplish?
Ross Douthat is a Catholic zealot like Vance. The U.S. was founded on the concept of separation of Church and state just to avoid the religious wars raging in Europe at the time.
"Their faith confirms that liberalism is the great enemy that must be fought and defeated so that something more wholesome and spiritually invigorating can take its place. But until liberalism has been expunged from the world, Christianity remains mainly a civilizational symbol or identity marker whose public substance is held in abeyance.
That’s quite a shift for the Catholic right in a single generation. Not long ago, the group insisted on a near-perfect identification between the Church and American liberalism as expressed by the Republican Party. Now it insists on the discontinuity between Christianity and America’s ruling ideology, which requires nothing short of political revolution to overcome."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/jd-vance-post-liberal-catholics-thiel/679388/
So, as part of Project 2025 we also have morality police and a restoration of the Inquisition...