The Founding Fathers emphasized private morality. Especially for those who were to govern. Washington described such, along with religion, as “indispensable supports”.
The left knows who its enemy is; it’s right in the preamble to the Communist Manifesto.
Well yes as in morality in one’s personal life wherever one went (actually more than morality, the fruits of outright faith).
Private I mean, as in one’s gustatory choices.