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MAGA, Trump, and The Vision Thing, by James Kalb – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, December 2, 2024

James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism (ISI Books, 2008), Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It (Angelico Press, 2013), and, most recently, The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church (Angelico Press, 2023).

 

We should keep arguing for natural law, moral tradition, the common good, recognition of the limitations on what government should try to do, and the sovereignty of God.

Progressives believe in “progress,” which, in practice, means extending the “arc of history”—the general tendency of thought and social organization—toward a windowless global technocracy that manages the whole of life.

Many people—including Catholics who merge love of God into a secular version of love of man—understand human goods and the world in a way that makes support for that tendency obligatory. They believe justice and inclusiveness require applying similar standards to everything and ensuring conformity to them. And they believe the way to combine compassion and rationality is to provide for all human concerns through comprehensive organization. …

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