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NYTimes columnist, National Review film critic, author of The Decadent Society (2020) and The Deep Places (2021), jottings at https://douthat.substack.com 

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    1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Feb 2020

      Going to use this harsh @RAVerBruggen review of the new Caldwell book as a hook for a point that I couldn't fit into my own column:https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/book-review-the-age-of-entitlement-falls-short/amp/ …

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    2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Feb 2020

      VerBruggen offers some reasons to be skeptical of Caldwell's "two competing constitutions" framework. I think you can accept the framework without accepting Caldwell's grimmer conclusions.

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    3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Feb 2020

      The reality is that America had de facto + de jure constitutions before the 60s. Race is an obvious example; the South was not actually governed by the 15th Amendment. The progressives layered a de facto administrative constitution atop the old one well before the Great Society.

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    4. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Feb 2020

      And likewise religion. Is the "new constitution" with its assertion of group rights in tension with religious liberties? Yes, but so was the old de facto constitution of soft Protestant establishment, which coexisted with the First Amendment until the school prayer decisions.

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    5. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Feb 2020

      Indeed (to steal a @michaelbd point) you can plausibly see the "new constitution" as an *extension* of the old Protestant establishment, officially secularized but still trying to make Catholics and Baptists conform to Episcopalianism.

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    6. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Feb 2020

      Which is to say that trying to balance constitutions old and new, cultural and legal, de facto and de jure, is not a new problem in American, but one that dates to the beginning of the republic, and will continue to its end.

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      Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Feb 2020

      We don't have successful balancers right now, but I think you can see what they would look like -- a conservatism friendlier to minorities, a liberalism friendlier to the religious. And maybe at some point we'll get them, and a certain de-polarization will be achieved.

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        1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 5 Feb 2020

          Or maybe not. But at the very least I agree with Richard Aldous's review, that Caldwell's caustic dismissal of Reagan's temporarily-successful balancing act is a choice for unwarranted despair.https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-age-of-entitlement-review-the-dividing-line-11579281287 …

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        2. Aryeh Cohen-Wade‏ @AryehCW 5 Feb 2020
          Replying to @DouthatNYT @RAVerBruggen @michaelbd

          Maybe a politician who doesn't see a Red America and a Blue America?

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        3. Matt Graves‏ @graveytrain016 5 Feb 2020
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          You have competing ideologies. If both ideologies were focused with the love of country at it's core than maybe you could get there, but one ideology has that love of country, and the other is about hate for what the country represents and literally thinks the other is evil.

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        2. Matt Graves‏ @graveytrain016 5 Feb 2020
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          The ultra religious types will always bicker, it's a matter of heresy.

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        1. Nuclear Dave‏ @woodstockdave 5 Feb 2020
          Replying to @DouthatNYT @RAVerBruggen @michaelbd

          Only one “-ism” has to change a core belief for both those things to happen. And they won’t ever do it.

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        1. Adam Sherman‏ @adamshermanesq 5 Feb 2020
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          How about the religious being friendlier to non-believers?

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        1. Jim Douglas‏ @JimSDouglas 5 Feb 2020
          Replying to @DouthatNYT @RAVerBruggen @michaelbd

          Ross, what would "a liberalism friendlier to the religious" look like in practice? Obama's a sincere Christian and Trump is pretty clearly an atheist pretending to be a Christian. Christians aren't being persecuted by anyone; the U.S. is more religious than other western nations.

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        2. Pulled Back High 5‏ @pulledbackhigh5 5 Feb 2020
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          What would it take for a "liberalism friendlier to the religious"? Should women allow religious people to interfere with their bodies? Should liberals allow religious people to discriminate against black people or gay people? Should educators be forced to teach junk science?

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