Perhaps a problem with the right is that it dwells on this question so much. The left adopts a position, by contrast, makes moralistic arguments to give themselves the moral high ground... 1/
https://twitter.com/NickSSolheim/status/1336708741459308546
...and regardless of whether "the people" support that position the left will, if given power, make their position law. Public opinion can be molded by law through habitual compliance with law 2/
The left enjoys the foundations of a cultural base on which to build their political superstructure, which the right does not. So the right's path forward, because it does not have time and the same navigable terrain the left enjoyed generations ago, is this top down approach 3/
There is something Aristotelian about this. Law as teacher through habit. It's not the most stable approach, it's kind of like charging at the problem with a wobbly wheel, but it's probably the only real way forward at this point 4/
Notice how ardently the left enforces compliance with laws that habituate people to live the way they want them to live. A weakness of the right is that it is not willing to do the same, because it is so in love with individualism and talk of "rights" 5/
The right, on the other hand, viciously fights over whether culture is first or politics is first, when it should snatch whatever weapon is available off the walls and start swinging. I prefer the cultural hegemony, but that might take time we don't have (generations) 6/
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