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Devin Smith's avatar

So well written, Erick! Thank you for the work that you do. Your voice is so important. The only thing I disagree on in your essay is the right needing a sane candidate on the left to stay intellectually fit. The right’s success ought not to stand on the behavior and mentality of the left, it needs to stand on submission to God’s guidance and discipline. The best athletes demand the best from themselves regardless of their competition. So I believe it should be in politics.

I believe the real problem the right has is waffling between a mostly-correct, but godless pragmatism and reality-based (read: Scripture-based) policy positions and governance. To the extent that we veer off, we get a mix of ultra-MAGA crazies, squishy centrists, or RINOs. Everywhere the problem is people who do not want to do the work of thinking systematically versus the lazy road of reasoning in pockets here and there to suit our whims. Sin invariably causes me and everyone else to do that to some extent, some more than others, according to our degree of sanctification.

The right needs to submit its whole platform to God’s Word. Not just the parts that will pragmatically get votes.

(Yes, I want all people to do that, but the right is objectively miles closer to that than the left. Perhaps that is too pragmatic of me, but I think the left’s core positions make them completely untenable.)

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ConservaPublican's avatar

Michael Crichton called it in 2003. It’s their religion and we’re dealing with zealots.

http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/2818/Crichton-Environmentalism-is-a-religion

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