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Michael Brendan Dougherty has written one of the best pieces of political and cultural analysis that I’ve seen in a while. It’s a short essay called “Trump Is Incidental To The Culture War,” and it’s well worth a read. In it, he offers a theory for why Democratic presidential candidates aren’t reaching rightward to try to peel off voters from Trump, as they have successfully done against Republicans in past elections. In fact, as MBD points out, they’re either pushing harder to the Left, or at least holding to strongly left culture-war positions. For example, I personally know Catholic conservatives who are interested in Bernie Sanders’s economics, but who won’t consider him because he’s so militantly pro-abortion. Me, in the past I’ve been drawn to Elizabeth Warren’s hard line on corporate misconduct, but after this stunt (recalled by MBD), there’s absolutely no way I could take a chance on her with my vote.