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Continue to ChatI do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take a healthy patriotism a little too far. For liberals the temptation is to say the purpose of politics is to straightforwardly bring the kingdom of God to Earth. For conservatives, I talk about Glenn Beck, the temptation is more apocalyptic and messianic, it's the temptation to say we did have a covenant with God, a literal covenant beginning with the Founding, and we are, like Israel in the Old Testament, falling away from it. - Ross Douthat from https://whatsmyquote.com/quote/i-do-think-you-can-see-throughout-american-history-this-temptation-and-it-s-both-a-liberal-and-a-conservative