Liberal Integralism – The American Conservative
In a sense, the left enjoys a real political advantage over the right because its politics and religion so seamlessly overlap. The lack of distinction between the two allows the left to muster potent, cohesive forces aimed at advancing their goals in the public square. (Consider, for example, the recent backlash in the media, academia, and the entertainment industry against red-state anti-grooming legislation.) Religious conservatives, by contrast, continue to be divided on most political issues not related to the sexual revolution, like the environment, immigration, foreign policy, and race. The left, meanwhile, marches more or less in lockstep.
The irony of course is that the left has successfully tarred the right as wanting to dissolve the separation of church and state. Their success has given them a significant, seemingly impregnable rhetorical advantage over the right. According to the left s narrative, the right is filled with Bible thumpers and Catholic integralists who want to remake America into a Handmaid s Tale-style dystopia, while the left is the true defender of the secular republic a remarkable story, given that wokeism has its own ideology and creed, coercively pushed on the populace.