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Our situation reminds me of the run-up to the Spanish Civil War. In Spain in the 1930s, there was a growing divide between urban and rural areas, and between Christians (mostly Catholics) and secularists. The elected left-wing government had begun actively persecuting Catholics, including confiscations of property, closing of religious schools, censorship, and the tolerance of street violence against people deemed enemies of the government, particularly the clergy.

We haven't gotten that far yet, but we've seen an increasing effort to marginalize and even criminalize Christians who hold certain beliefs, attacks on church property, threats to remove accreditation of religious schools, efforts to deny Christians entry into key professions (law, medicine, counseling, and education) and widespread censorship and gaslighting. (The most recent example of the latter: at a time when we've seen dozens of attacks on Catholic churches and pregnancy crisis centers, Democrats and media have launched a narrative about a non-existent wave of Republican-led violence.)