Dana Milbank correctly identifies the single most important identifier standing in the way of American progress: White Evangelicals. It is this group that stands in the way of a honest and productive conversation on race, on climate change, on the pandemic, on gender issues and equality. They are the retrograde past of America, and Trump played them like a piano.
In their religion, their special status as Whites and as Christians gives them the mantle of "True Americans," and they can't see the new America birthing around them. Milbank calls them an island drifting away from the rest of us (Little Evangelica). Their faith is built on a willful disregard for facts that contradict their faith, and now Trumpism is part of their faith.
Milbank points out where they sit on the actuarial tables and points to a better future, but I'm becoming worried about the timeframe required to see this cohort shuffle off their mortal coil. We have serious issues to address that cannot be addressed as long as the Culture Warriors of Little Evangelica control one of our major parties.
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