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Jiang frames it as a conflict between conservative Christian America and a secular, Enlightenment, urban, college-educated left.
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Culture war
Jiang frames it as a conflict between conservative Christian America and a secular, Enlightenment, urban, college-educated left.
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model
He models the culture war as a conflict between two American founding strands: a Christian nation under God's law and a deist-Enlightenment project of reason, secularism, and multicultural empire.
prediction
Jiang predicts that the civil war will begin with Trump's reelection because Trump uniquely embodies the culture war.
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"And this division actually goes back to the very founding of America in the 16th century. The Civil War is a civil war that..."
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"believe that reason should be the god of human affairs okay and these were the founding fathers okay the founding fathers believed in something..."
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"...American politics. And the reason why is that he embodies the culture wars, okay? Meaning, like, the people on the left, all that they..."
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"...economy, okay? Now, what exaggerates, makes the situation worse, are the culture wars. So America is divided between left and right. And this division..."
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"...universities. Before people started universities, but not anymore because of the culture wars, right? So, that's the problem in America right now. You have..."
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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