Trump’s new culture war has left liberals reeling. They thought they’d won that battle

The Manchester Guardian ^ | January 28, 2017 | Rich Lowry

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The American coastal elites are living in a different country than they thought and it has a powerful voice in the new president

Donald Trump is an unlikely president. He is also an unlikely cultural warrior. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming both.

Besides throwing American politics into a tumult that won’t end in the near future, President Trump has reoriented and reinvigorated the American culture war. He has wrenched it away from its decades-long focus on issues related to religion and sexual morality and created another axis around populism and nationalism.

The issues involved in this new culture war – anti-elitism, political correctness, immigration, national sovereignty, multiculturalism – are every bit as charged as the ones that animated the old one. They involve the symbolically and emotionally fraught questions of how we should live and who we are as a people.

Other advanced countries don’t have culture wars quite like the United States. A fight has raged here since the 1970s over such issues as abortion, school prayer, traditional sexual mores, gay rights, religious displays on public property, pornography, graphic content in television shows and movies and school curriculums. The combatants have been, roughly speaking, secular coastal elites on the one hand and a religious heartland on the other....

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Q for Lowry: Which “worst instincts” would those be.. ?

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Thanks for your reply. She's always been a Marxist, I think. Atheist Jewish person. Go figure.

I'm in New York, so you are expected to make sacrifices to live up to your true beliefs. It's hard. I used to be a liberal many years ago.

But my heart was never really in it. I've always thought abortion was terribly wrong, which is why I never impregnated her. It seemed like she needed a trophy abortion.

I never wanted any part of that, so I was always careful to take my sperm with me.

Note to men: Take your sperm with you! :)

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.@JudgeJeanine on Illegal Immigration: 'Law & Order is Back in the West' http://bit.ly/2jFek24

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Rich Lowry seems to have forgotten his jihad against Trump during the election. Perhaps he hopes everyone else will do the same.

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He and most of his cabinet are taking $1/year in salary.

How’s your honey, 2DV?

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I think 20 years of a consistent shrinking resistance leaves the left a bit surprised by Trumps ferocity. I'm 53, I'm sure others would probably trace it back to Eve in the garden. (or, at least to the time we women won the right to vote)

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Sounds like the wit and wisdom of General Jack D. Ripper. ;-D