{"id":68006,"date":"2025-12-11T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68006\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:05:07","slug":"opinion-the-duality-in-conservative-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/68006\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Duality in Conservative Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">One important element of Christian culture and Christian heritage is the idea of loving your enemies. It goes all the way back to the Gospels, and there was a now famous moment at Charlie\u2019s memorial where Erica, one of the leaders of the movement that he worked, that he built up, got up and talked about forgiveness and forgiving Charlie\u2019s killer, forgiving your enemies, loving your enemies. And then the president of the United States, also a friend of Charlie\u2019s, a man on whose behalf Charlie did so much work, got up and said, I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t help it, I hate them, I hate my enemies. And I feel like that duality is very obviously on display in conservative politics, where you have a conservatism and a populism that is informed by Christianity in a lot of ways, but at the same time, you got to fight your enemies. You can\u2019t give them an inch. Would you agree \u2014 and you could disagree \u2014 that conservative politics, going forward through the end of Trump and after, could use a little more of the Erica Kirk spirit? And if you agree, how do you do that? Well, if you\u2019re asking, do I endorse a little bit more Erica Kirk\u2019s spirit, of course I do. Good, OK, I thought that would be an easy lift. So now, but what does that mean when you\u2019re not just preaching the Gospel and talking about Jesus\u2019 love, but when you are doing politics with your fellow citizens who you end up having really good reasons to, or feel like you have really good reasons to, treat as an enemy? Yeah, I mean, I would say, I think there\u2019s a tendency in the modern media landscape, especially when you\u2019re talking about legacy media \u2014 and immigration\u2019s a good example of this \u2014 where they\u2019ll major, they\u2019ll turn the volume all the way up for what I call a sob story of somebody that\u2019s in the country illegally getting deported, and they will turn the volume all the way down on the sob story, which is actually a real tragedy of a family that lost somebody to fentanyl or that was trafficked or that was hit by a drunk driver that shouldn\u2019t have been in the country. My counter to that is that loving my neighbor and loving my community means that I want to \u2014 sometimes I\u2019m going to be forced to do the hard thing on immigration, or I\u2019m going to be forced to do the hard thing on law-and-order issues, because actually, that\u2019s what love looks like. It\u2019s basically saying, I love you enough that you\u2019re \u2014 I\u2019m not going to let you drink the toilet water, America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One important element of Christian culture and Christian heritage is the idea of loving your enemies. It goes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3653,35290,32391,9,11,10,32392],"class_list":["post-68006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-conservatism-in-the-united-states","tag-erika-kirk","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-turning-point-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}