📚 Currently reading: The Flag and the Cross by Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry. On the deep story progressives have to contend with to truly build a multicultural democratic movement:

Secular progressivism also has its deep story. In that story, a morally and intellectually advanced elite shepherds a backward and benighted mass toward prosperity and enlightenment. In the early 20th century, this deep story was entangled with nativism, imperialism, and eugenics. Today it is tinged with “workism,“ meritocracy and technocracy. And, in many cases, with an instinctive antipathy toward organized religion, which is regarded as a mortal threat to personal autonomy or even a form of “child abuse.“ If they are really serious about liberal democracy, then secular progressives will also have to set aside some of their own most deeply held prejudices, prejudices that have also played an important role in stoking populist resentment and driving political polarization. (P.129)