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‘Paradoxically, these movements have emerged as America has become less religious. The latest Pew Survey shows 62% of Americans self-identify as Christian. That would have been 90% … a few decades ago. So, what’s being proposed by the religious illiberals [like Patrick Deneen and Adrian Vermeule, who want America to be a Christian state,] seems extremely unlikely. And yet the decline of the Christian presence in the American population seems to have just spurred them on, so are they just living in a fantasy land, or is there a strategy behind their thinking?’

‘[Under Trump,]  they see an opportunity in their proximity to power. They’re not lonely figures, lonely prophets shouting at the margins, but they’re very close to the halls of power, and some are perhaps working within those halls of power right now, as we speak… Vermeule talks about using the bureaucracy, using the administrative state to nudge people in the right direction.’

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Wink wink nudge nudge is your administrative state a goer? Does it… you know… go? Mwoohohohohoo, ay? Hohohohohoho, ay?

Margaret Soltan, March 20, 2025 3:01PM
Posted in: forms of religious experience

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