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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.
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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.
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He says the narrative that America is a force for good no longer holds across left or right, with the left seeing America as founded on slavery and violence and the right seeing it as destructive empire.
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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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"Consumers have thousands of dollars in credit card debt. You can no longer afford houses. If you buy a house, you can't pay off..."
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"And then you look at what's happening in Israel, right? Well, more young people now believe that America is a force of evil in..."
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"...exactly the vote is going to turn out, you know, the left -right dichotomy has largely been blurred in the last few years. You..."
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"...of screwed. Okay? Okay? America has the same situation where the left -right divide is so polarized that eventually they'll go to war. If..."
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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