Lefting the Right — or — Righting the Left

David L. Bahnsen’s January 17, 2021 writing on Donald Trump, and the future of conservatism (https://www.yahoo.com/news/final-assessment-trump-presidency-path-113041600.html), provides a good view of how my views contrast with those on the “responsible right”. His views, of course, are his own, not those of all on the right.

From the 1619 Project to cancel culture to intersectionality to COVID tyranny to the woke mob to the summer 2020 riots, I recognize why the whole “idea” of Trump has been appealing. It is not my argument that these things are anything other than the threat to our way of life you believe them to be. I am on your side about cancel culture, about the desire to redefine America, about the social-justice mob, and about so much else.

The 1619 Project was an incredible writing that helped expose many white people to the totality of how racism infects The United States. Cancel Culture seems most relevant to me in how, for example, a few words are taken out-of-context in attempts to totally dismiss the brilliant insights of AOC. Obviously, it is abused, at times, but it is used dismissively by the right, as well as by the left.

Intersectionality is vitally important! Racism, absent looking at sexism and classism, is a narrow slice of much larger problem. Blanketly dismissing it, as Bahnsen does, shows the…