Your humble author has noted for some time that many on the purported Right have adopted Leftist thinking. Indeed, much of that thinking can be expressed favorably in Marxist terms, abet with a “trad” or “Christian” sheen upon it. James Lindsay, one of the people responsible for the academic hoax that got Leftist academic journals to publish Mein Kampf re-written as Feminism or how dog parks are racist has noted what your humble author—but, alas, not enough others—to notice: That the same fundamental thinking of the “wokes” is increasingly reflected in the thinking of the purported Right.

Now, Lindsay is no conservative, and is more akin to a George Orwell: A person of the Left who fears what Marxist thought—and it’s pseudo-intellectual decedents—has brought to the fore. Often, the knee-jerk defense is to cover oneself in religion as a magical shield that protects one from all criticism. It is also amongst many performative religious individuals where their thinking is fundamentally Leftist with their eschatology being, superficially at least, Christian. As your humble author previously has asked: “How much is one’s sense of normalcy derived from scripture as opposed to one’s sense of normalcy informing one’s understanding of scripture?”

James Lindsay has sought to goad many of these “Christian Nationalists” as the Leftists that they are in the same way he outed the woke academics via the “Grievance Studies Affair”: Specifically by laying on a superficial Christian sheen over “The Communist Manifesto”, which was accepted by the American Reformer in an article entitled “The Regime Fears the Rise of the New Rival”… like it was a haunting specter or something.