{"id":401,"date":"2008-12-02T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=401"},"modified":"2008-12-05T18:14:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T02:14:32","slug":"whats-the-matter-with-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/whats-the-matter-with-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the matter with the Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The American Scene, Reihan Salam asks, <a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanscene.com\/2008\/12\/02\/is-social-conservatism-the-problem\">IS SOCIAL CONSERVATISM THE PROBLEM?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; I doubt that Frum fears a Republican party composed in large part of devout religious believers \u2014 rather, <strong>I think he\u2019s worried about the perception that the GOP has become narrowly <em>sectarian<\/em>. <\/strong>Note that Huckabee did very well with white evangelicals, but very poorly with pro-life Catholics, this despite a message that was arguably tailor-made for Reagan Democrats. A \u201cless overtly religious message\u201d could nevertheless hold fast to the core concerns of cultural conservatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was mumbling the word &#8220;sectarian&#8221; before I got to that point.  Solutions?  I think ultimately we are in for a new age of sectionalism, and the lowest tension resolution will be federalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The American Scene, Reihan Salam asks, IS SOCIAL CONSERVATISM THE PROBLEM?: &#8230; I doubt that Frum fears a Republican party composed in large part of devout religious believers \u2014 rather, I think he\u2019s worried about the perception that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/whats-the-matter-with-the-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[60,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}