Mark Hemingway of the Federalist documents an important cultural shift in America.
As a liberal born in 1966, as [comedian Sam] Seder was, he’s spent his entire life watching American liberals basically achieve complete ideological capture of every major institution — the federal and state bureaucracies, academia, the media, Hollywood, even Wall Street and Silicon Valley have been predominantly liberal the last couple of decades. Heck, for a guy so worried about Christian Nationalism, he can take heart in the fact that Christianity is far less of a threat to our current liberal order because liberals took over almost all of the mainline Protestant churches and proceeded gut these denominations of their traditional biblical beliefs to the point they’re all more or less indistinguishable from … Reform Jews.
In other words, it’s safe to assume Seder is defending the dominant liberal order imposing its values on everyone because it’s what he knows and what he prefers, not because he can articulate why it’s justifiably “moral.” Nor is our current liberal order necessarily a matter of consent or democracy. This is pretty evident in the left’s approach to social issues. Gay marriage flailed in nearly every referendum it faced, and only became legal after the Supreme Court made it legal by decree, using a decision that has all the defensible legal and moral rubric one would expect to find on the back of a cereal box. And when a more conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the left screamed in unison they actually preferred it when nine unelected judges conjured up a new right to murder children in the womb that half the country found morally abhorrent, rather than letting such a controversial issue be decided by be democratic means.
And when liberals couldn’t exercise raw power to get their way in courtrooms and legislative chambers, they leveraged the economic might of corporate America to enforce their agenda.
