Is consistent involvement in local politics really too much to ask? Conservatives manage it, many of them poorhttps://twitter.com/a_man_in_black/status/698274959957716992 …
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Part of it is the Right establishment has a strong link btwn social and political life (churches), the Left had that w unions and lost it
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Something ppl often don't understand if they don't come from a churchgoing family is how powerful churches are as an organizing venue
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See also how intricately social life & political organizing are linked for many college students & how that evaporates in the workplace
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When I was a teen in an evangelical community I identified w the Left but 100% of the social institutions around me were Right institutions
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When I went to college that totally reversed polarity - being Right made you effectively a social pariah - & the difference was headspinning
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Striking thing abt evangelical machine politics is how it wasn't candidate-driven. Candidates were beholden to the church, not vice versa
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