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I’ve written before that social conservatism is the red-headed stepchild of modern conservatism. Buckleyite fusionism threw a sop to the social conservatives, but largely in the context of the Cold War: being a devout Christian was a middle-finger to those godless Commies in the Soviet Union, and so social conservatism represented another front in that conflict.
Since the end of the Cold War, when the battle against Marxism became more subtly a cultural one, social conservatives have been ejected in favor of economic conservatives and national security conservatives. It’s square to insist that Americans should strive to live lives of chaste self-sufficiency and virtue, and self-restraint is bad for the bottom line. Instead, let’s encourage all manner of degeneracy, so long as it helps GDP.
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