Culture Wars Era - is it moving into its final phase?

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(01-24-2017, 11:35 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:

(01-24-2017, 08:03 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Culture Wars get really nasty with President Pence.

We are entering the worst four years of American politics since the Civil War... -- and that leaves much allowance for the Gilded Age.

With Pence, culture wars would be worse, geopolitics, economics, etc, etc, better.

Although Pence is a theocon he's not one of the enfants terribles who want to destroy the post WW-II and post Cold War orders, per se. He's a theocon but not Al-Right.

All in all, Pence would be similar in some ways to what we would have seen with President Cruz.

Trump and Pence really are a bizarre pair to be leading the country right now. I am still reeling a little from their winning the election. It's the reaction to their rule (the resistance, if you will, or lack of one) that will tell where the Culture Wars settle. Even if they accomplish destroying the federal government programs they oppose, and instituting Trump's dream of a walled-in police state, they won't necessarily win hearts and minds. The big question -  will it all blow up in their face and they will be the last trace of white supremacist Jesus-or-else America? Or will they succeed in pushing the country in their direction, perhaps with an ample supply of alternate facts at hand?