Are Americans Becoming More Conservative?

As the Biden administration wages war on traditional American values, there has been a growing sense within the conservative movement that this effort is backfiring and causing people to become more ideologically conservative. But what does the evidence say?

On average last year according to Gallup, 37 percent of Americans described their political views as moderate, 36 percent as conservative, and 25 percent as liberal. These numbers have remained relatively unchanged over the last decade, suggesting that neither Biden nor Trump s presidency for that matter have much impacted the national political identity of the country.

But an issue-by-issue examination of this question produces some noteworthy results that suggest the country may indeed be becoming more conservative in certain key areas.

On social issues, for instance, conservatives appear to be gaining ground even as the Biden administration pursues the most far-left social agenda in American history. Another Gallup poll from June of this year found that 38 percent of Americans say they are conservative or very conservative on social issues, compared to 33 percent who said the same in 2022 and 30 percent who said the same in 2021.

Meanwhile, the portion of Americans saying their social views are liberal or very liberal dipped to 29 percent this year from 34 percent last year, while the number of Americans identifying as moderate remained relatively unchanged at 31 percent.

To be sure, there are still some concerning social trends for conservatives. Just one quarter of Americans now say they value Biblical morality, while just one third of Evangelicals, even fewer mainline Protestants, and one quarter of Catholics say they believe in absolute moral truths, and that defining truth is not up to each individual. Clearly, the left s moral relativism has taken hold in the culture.

via amac.us

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