Josiah Lippincott, a Hillsdale college alum and former page for Devin Nunes, has written a deeply compelling piece titled "Conservatives Lost the Culture War and the Trump Agenda Is the Only Path Forward." The essay delivers a powerful message, and it might be the most important article you'll read this year.
The essay is important because it makes the case the Republicans on the national level need to focus on questions of national survival-immigration, trade, foreign policy, and crime-instead of focusing exclusively on culture war issues or economic issues which are big political losers on the national scale.
If we don't fix the problem of national survival, then culture war issues don't matter-we'll continue losing culture war issues and our nation just like we have for the past fifty years.
Conservatives do not have a viable path to political power any other way.
The spiritual crisis that afflicts the West runs far deeper than most social conservatives want to admit.
Conservatives in deep red areas can still fight cultural battles at the local and state levels.
Even worse, focusing on culture war issues which are unpopular at the national level *at the expense* of issues of national survival just guarantees we lose in the electoral college, and the culture war keeps being lost.
We need to fight culture war issues at a moral and spiritual level, and at a local political level, until we gain the strength necessary to take these issues national.
Conservatives aren't even willing to mock their enemies.
If you want to make "Respectable" social conservatives and Christians uncomfortable, call a prostitute a "Whore" in their presence.
The old pre-World War II conservative consensus in favor of protectionism, non-intervention, and immigration restrictions is still enormously popular.
https://www.revolver.news/2023/05/most-important-essay-you-will-read-all-year/
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