Sometimes I think the alt right is simply the scared right. Sadly all of their attitudes seem to spring from a basic shrinking fear of life itself. I feel like yelling, “man up and get your head in the game, we have a planet to take care of, not just your lucky little backyard”
That is true of the Galilean scientific revolution perhaps, but the Enlightenment is something like an intellectual commodity. Things loosely like it have been discovered many times and will be again.