I tend to side with Kari Lake on the wisdom of a pro tem<\/em> tactical downplay as we head for 2024. But here<\/a> is the other side of the argument. <\/span><\/p>\n Put simply, the big mistake in thinking the culture war isn\u2019t the most critical issue heading into 2024 is that all of American politics is now one big culture war<\/em>. The culture war is the only<\/em> issue because the cultural war is everything now. When one side stakes its claim to political power on offering abortion up until birth and transgender operations for 8-year-olds, and holds out these policies as proof of its moral authority, we\u2019re way past arguing over how to get the economy back on track. There\u2019s no going back to that kind of politics.<\/span><\/p>\n Tucker Carlson hit on this at the end of his big speech at Heritage recently. He compared the values of the political left to the values of the Aztecs, who sacrificed children to their bloodthirsty gods \u2014 and he wasn\u2019t wrong. Our politics, he argued, have shifted profoundly in a relatively short period of time. Instead of arguing over the best means to bring about an agreed-upon common good, we no longer agree about what the common good is.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As for Tucker Carlson, his defenestration, and what our boy is fixing to do about it, see Megan Kelly<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n The level of political polarization in this country is astonishing. An article at The Nation<\/em> begins like this: "<\/span>T<\/span>he horrific murder of Jordan Neely on a New York subway spoke volumes about the tolerance of racial violence in the American social order." What planet does the author live on? The planet Unsinn<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n See our earlier discussion<\/a> on the tactical question. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I tend to side with Kari Lake on the wisdom of a pro tem tactical downplay as we head for 2024. But here is the other side of the argument. Put simply, the big mistake in thinking the culture war isn\u2019t the most critical issue heading into 2024 is that all of American politics is now … Continue reading “Political Tactics: Downplay the Culture War Pro Tempore<\/i>?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n