If we don’t stop it now, the Trumpist politics of “let’s tick off the liberals” is going to be devastating to religious liberty.
Nice...that is how craven Conservatives think about the popular disgust with the politics-as-usual-crowd they chucklingly crow we dare not oppose or else...
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/12/surrender-he-cucked-cucklishly.html
The 19th century Calvinist Cassandra, Robert Lewis Dabney, was right about the worse than worthless Conservatives;
“It may be inferred again that the present
movement for women’s rights, will certainly
prevail from the history of its only opponent,
Northern conservatism. This is a party which
never conserves anything. Its history has been
that it demurs to each aggression of the
progressive party, and aims to save its credit
by a respectable amount of growling, but always
acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was
the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of
the accepted principles of conservatism; it is
now conservative only in affecting to resist
the next innovation, which will tomorrow be
forced upon its timidity, and will be succeeded
by some third revolution, to be denounced and
then adopted in its turn. American conservatism
is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as
it moves forward towards perdition. It remains
behind it, but never retards it, and always advances
near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost
its savor: wherewith shall it he salted? Its
impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is
worthless because it is the conservatism of
expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It
intends to risk nothing serious, for the sake of
the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the
folly of martyrdom. It always—when about to enter
a protest—very blandly informs the wild beast
whose path it essays to stop, that its “bark is
worse than its bite,” and that it only means to
save its manners by enacting its decent rôle of
resistance. The only practical purpose which it
now subserves in American politics is to give
enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,”
and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy from
having nothing to whip. No doubt, after a few
years, when women’s suffrage shall have become
an accomplished fact, conservatism will tacitly
admit it into its creed, and thenceforward plume
itself upon its wise firmness in opposing with similar weapons the extreme of baby suffrage; and when that too
shall have been won, it will be heard declaring that
the integrity of the American Constitution requires
at least the refusal of suffrage to asses. There it
will assume, with great dignity, its final position.”