John Daniel Davidson
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Sr Ed @FDRLST. @Hillsdale alum. Author of PAGAN AMERICA: The Decline Of Christianity And The Dark Age To Come, out now:
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It was a referendum above all on Trump’s war against Iran and the costs that the war imposed on American families—a war that Shapiro and all the other neocons demanded!
Now they blame Trump for doing what they wanted. Amazing. These people have no shame, no self awareness.
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Some families will in fact resist the imposition of the state religion, if only because they are Americans snd therefore instinctively know that the state has no right to coerce their conscience in this way.
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The reason they said it was an attack on our “freedom” is because they were unwilling or unable to articulate anything other than freedom as being uniquely American. They wouldn’t say western or Christian for fear of being seen as racist or xenophobic. The mainstream of the ‘90s and 2000s was captured by the idea of America as a blank slate. If the Muslim terrorists hated is because we were western Christians, it would undermine that blank slate narrative, so they had to hate us bc of our “freedom,” whatever that meant. (This is also why they used ridiculous phrases like “war on terror” when we all knew it was a war on violent Muslims.)
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