{"id":1928725,"date":"2023-05-11T06:27:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-daniel-davidson-the-culture-war-isnt-the-most-important-issue-of-2024-its-the-only-issue\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T06:32:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T10:32:03","slug":"john-daniel-davidson-the-culture-war-isnt-the-most-important-issue-of-2024-its-the-only-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-daniel-davidson-the-culture-war-isnt-the-most-important-issue-of-2024-its-the-only-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture war = only issue in 2024 &#8211; John Daniel Davidson."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-daniel-davidson-the-culture-war-isnt-the-most-important-issue-of-2024-its-the-only-issue%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1928725&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Culture War: The Only Issue in American Politics<\/h2>\n<p>The more obvious it becomes that our domestic political struggles are actually part of a much larger spiritual war over the fate of western civilization, that we are today engaged not so much in a political fight as a religious battle between good and evil, the stronger the urge seems to be among Republican politicians to deny this reality and take refuge in the comforting political narratives of the past.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect case in point was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake\/status\/1466019479479470080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a tweet last week<\/a>\u00a0from Kari Lake\u2019s permanent campaign, which managed in one fell swoop to channel the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-daniel-davidson-the-culture-war-isnt-the-most-important-issue-of-2024-its-the-only-issue\/\" title=\"Culture war = only issue in 2024 - John Daniel Davidson.\">deeply misguided political analysis<\/a> of the entire neocon Washington establishment: \u201cNo one is saying not to fight the culture war. But it\u2019s simply not the most critical issue heading into 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Comforting Fiction of the GOP Establishment<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe GOP must show the country how it plans to turn the economy around &#038; prevent World War 3,\u201d she added. \u201cWe need to take this country back from @JoeBiden before we can take our culture back from his friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes. The comforting fiction that if we can just show voters how we plan to turn the economy around, surely then we\u2019ll regain power, surely then we\u2019ll have a mandate from the people \u2014 and\u00a0then\u00a0(and only then) we can \u201ctake our culture back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With apologies to Lake, who before the midterms seemed to have a bright political future in the emerging populist GOP, this is absolute nonsense. On the one hand, it\u2019s a desperate cope, the embodiment of the stale, low-energy politics that have kept conservatives out of power in Washington for most of the last three decades. On the other, it\u2019s a textbook neocon talking point, pretending the culture war is a distraction when in fact it\u2019s the only war whose outcome really will decide the fate of our country.<\/p>\n<h3>The Culture War is Everything Now<\/h3>\n<p>Put simply, the big mistake in thinking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-gop-establishment-wants-to-take-congress-this-fall-without-telling-voters-why-they-should\/\" title=\"The GOP Establishment Wants To Take Congress This Fall Without Telling Voters Why They Should\">culture war isn\u2019<\/a>t the most critical issue heading into 2024 is that\u00a0all of American politics is now one big culture war. The culture war is the\u00a0only\u00a0issue because the cultural war is everything now. When one side stakes its claim to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/historic-significance-of-georgia-senate-contests\/\" title=\"Historic Significance of Georgia Senate Contests\">political power<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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. Forget about whether Republicans or Democrats are right about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-culture-war-isnt-the-most-important-issue-of-2024-its-the-only-issue\/\" title=\"2024 hinges on the Culture War.\">ideal marginal tax rate<\/a>. We can\u2019t even agree on whether men and women exist as meaningful categories. And if we don\u2019t get that question right, you can forget about economic prosperity, much less anything like a republic or a constitutional system of government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>The Culture War is a War for Survival<\/h3>\n<p>What the neocons and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-jan-6-committee-is-after-more-than-midterm-votes\/\" title=\"The Jan 6 Committee Is After More Than Midterm Votes\">establishment politicians don\u2019<\/a>t seem to understand is that the culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Share Share Article on Facebook Share Article on Twitter Share Article on Truth Social Copy Article Link Share Article via Email The more obvious it becomes that our domestic political struggles are actually part of a much larger spiritual war over the fate of western civilization, that we are today engaged not so much in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1928726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4506,4421,8488,12926,4174,4475,3618,6696],"class_list":["post-1928725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-4506","tag-culture","tag-daniel","tag-davidson","tag-issue","tag-john","tag-riot","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}