Opinion: American politics doesn’t need a Christian supremacy. It needs solidarity.
By Michael Gerson Michael Gerson Columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist May 20 at 5:01 PM In a country that spans a continent, in a party that produced Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, there is still no serious political challenge to the ideological supremacy of a corrupt, deeply prejudiced con man who cares nothing for democratic traditions, constitutional limits and moral norms.
I know my critique is complicated by the fact that most conservatives are pleased with a specific element of Trump’s agenda — the appointment of judges tethered to the words of the Constitution. This is not a minor thing. But the words of the Constitution itself are starkly at odds with a belief in Christian supremacy. And so respect for that document can be located only within a different and better theory of Christian social engagement.
Yet there has never been the U.S. equivalent of a Christian Democratic party. Why is that? At the most basic political level, as Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute pointed out to me, there is no socially conservative and economically interventionist party because we don’t have a parliamentary system. A country with multiple viable parties would probably find some home for this ideological hybrid.
When Catholics emerged as a major force in Republican circles — with thinkers such as William F. Buckley Jr. — it was through the instrument of the conservative movement. And these Catholics were influenced more by libertarianism than Catholic social theory.
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