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Yup. And the idea that all people whose political commentary carries a certain amount of influence are part of some similarity-enforcing "elite" doesn't stand up to the smallest amount of scrutiny, unless one believes that televangelists, radical libertarian think tanks, the NYT and Marxist professors are a fairly homogenous group.

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Errr, have you actually paid serious attention to "televangelists"? I benefited from growing up Catholic in a strongly Pentecostal area which I've retired to, and I can assure you they aren't exactly preaching the Word of God anymore, but something much more temporal. Fast forwarding, I'm told they're fully on board with feminism nowadays.

Now, there is some distance from "radical libertarian think tanks" and the rest, but, for example, can you find any serious distance between any 4 of these groups on immigration? Use of marijuana? And libertarians are a relatively small, and in the US, a disintegrating group.

It's possible they have some areas of agreement (none of them are white nationalists, for instance), but that hardly means that Pat Robertson, the Koch Brothers, Krugman and Chomsky are on the same page in terms of values and objectives

I'm sure there's enough diversity of opinion between televangelists for some of them to be on board with feminism, but that's more a sign that the US has less of a religious Establishment than many countries rather than more.

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