This sounds pretty frightening. Non-American here, so can't really judge how realistic this is, but I'll take it at face value. The thing that strikes me when

This sounds pretty frightening. Non-American here, so can't really judge how realistic this is, but I'll take it at face value. The thing that strikes me when I read articles like this are quotes like: > What the ideology demands is law. What the ideology opposes is a crime. Once a legal system is subservient to dogma an open society is impossible. > “There is no dialogue with those who deny your legitimate right to be,” I said, looking pointedly at the LGBTQ students. “At that point it is a fight for survival.” It feels like these indicate a sentiment for a type of war that simply cannot be won. It's a rallying cry of "hey everyone who already agree with me, our opponents' mob is wrong and we should shout louder that we are right". Note I'm not at all commenting on who's right (if the article isn't overly alarmist, I'd say it's the author), but rather that this method just cannot be productive. The "opponents' mob" is well-organised and totally convinced they are right. And even worse, they can completely mirror your arguments and shout them to their mob. Aren't the "lefties" leading with an LGBT / gender / whatnot ideology that bypasses, dunno, "common sense" or "natural law", or something else that cannot be productively argued about? Again, I'm not trying to give such arguments merit, merely saying that in a (more and more heated) debate, it's pointless to throw arguments at your opponent that are basically unparsable to them. In short, it's fighting polarisation with more polarisation. The immediate problem is clear - creeping illiberalisation. But it seems like the root cause is a total breakdown of communication. Like it or not, "lefties" and "righties" live in one country and either have to get on with each other somehow, or you'll have permanent fights like this. Over time, maybe some Democratic Supreme Court justices will be elected, undo all this Christian stuff, and the "Christian Fascists", as the article calls them, will be just as outraged as the "Liberals" are now. We will be lucky if human casualties are low. Compromises suck to everyone, but the alternative is even worse.