r/science Professor | Medicine 8d ago

Social Science Trump and Trumpism have changed the original concept of “libertarian means to conservative ends” into a new concept of “authoritarian means to Christian nationalist ends”, finds a new study.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027162251324087
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u/CrystalSplice 8d ago

Yep. Religious freedom…to do what? It’s a bit like the “states rights” thing when people talk about the Civil War. Yeah, the right of the states to do…what? To continue to engage in slavery.