I’ve long read that a great appeal of Communism is not that as a faith that it is easy, but on the contrary that it is hard. We all instinctively want boundaries and rules. Freedom is good, but too much freedom is scary. Many of the freedom preaching Existentialists were Communists. Heidegger was a Nazi.
And our nation was not founded to protect the freedom to be a loud self indulgent moron. It was to protect the right to be a disciplined believer in some variant of Chritianity not allowed in Eu…
Since this guy is from Brookings the real objective was to convince everyone that we need to keep electing Democrats because otherwise Adrian Vermeule, Sohrab Amari, and Patrick Deneen, who I’m still not sure are real people, are going to seize power and roll down your street with tanks and force you to take communion.