I don’t often disagree with David French—he is, in fact, one of the people who keep me sane. But his latest Sunday newsletter says this about the two parties:
Again, remember that both of these coalitions are chock-full of Christians. It is not the case (at least not yet) that America has one religious party and one secular party. The mutual loathing you see comes from people who could recite every syllable of the Apostles’ Creed side-by-side and believe wholeheartedly in the divine inspiration of scripture.
Let’s put aside the fact that there are no more than twelve right-wing Christians in the entire country who can recite the Apostle’s Creed.
Are the two sides chock-full of Christians? Absolutely. Does the secular faction of the Democratic party often forget and overlook its (largely non-white) religious base? Absolutely. But everything French goes on to describe in his newsletter applies without question to the Republican party’s (largely white) religious base. A much better case would have to be made—and he makes no case at all—to show that the “mutual hatred” from the Left stems from its non-white religious members. I don’t think French would hold on to this statement very tightly, but why the equivalence at all?
I get that both sides of the political isle—as a whole!—do a wonderful job of maintaining a mutually despising feedback loop. And I’m not saying that the Left—religious or not, non-white or otherwise—hasn’t earned a great deal of scorn. But as far as I can see, the Right, especially in its religious elements, has earned every last drop of its closed-minded, dishonest, immoral, unintelligent, and lazy reputation. Its house is entirely corrupt, and that is no one’s fault but that of its own members.