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The Right Without Wrong (Jacobin magazine)
The Right Without Wronghttps://jacobin.com/2024/10/the-right-without-wrong
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In the era of what Anton Jäger has called “hyperpolitics,” the loss of faith on the Right seems to have only supercharged cultural conflicts and further polarized the country. Conservative activist Christopher Rufo — who rarely, if ever, mentions faith or God or Christian values — warns instead of “civilizational suicide,” while a professor at the archconservative Hillsdale College complains that the Left is full of “incompetent diversity hires” and “overweight, ugly, mentally unstable, cross-dressing, low-IQ people.” Meanwhile, during the Democratic National Convention, right-wing activists mercilessly mocked Tim Walz’s “stupid crying son” as a “puffy beta male” and a “blubbering bitch boy.” The 17-year-old Gus Walz has a learning disability.
This is concerning. The youthful, exuberant, and forward-looking conservatives of tomorrow have cranked up the zealotry while abandoning even a nominal Christian commitment to compassion and love of the victim, the neighbor, the immigrant, and the poor. As Ross Douthat ominously warned in 2016, “If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right.”
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In the era of what Anton Jäger has called “hyperpolitics,” the loss of faith on the Right seems to have only supercharged cultural conflicts and further polarized the country. Conservative activist Christopher Rufo — who rarely, if ever, mentions faith or God or Christian values — warns instead of “civilizational suicide,” while a professor at the archconservative Hillsdale College complains that the Left is full of “incompetent diversity hires” and “overweight, ugly, mentally unstable, cross-dressing, low-IQ people.” Meanwhile, during the Democratic National Convention, right-wing activists mercilessly mocked Tim Walz’s “stupid crying son” as a “puffy beta male” and a “blubbering bitch boy.” The 17-year-old Gus Walz has a learning disability.
This is concerning. The youthful, exuberant, and forward-looking conservatives of tomorrow have cranked up the zealotry while abandoning even a nominal Christian commitment to compassion and love of the victim, the neighbor, the immigrant, and the poor. As Ross Douthat ominously warned in 2016, “If you dislike the religious right, wait till you meet the post-religious right.”
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