constitutional republic

Do We Need a 28th Amendment? When Religious Freedom Becomes Religious Rule

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America has 27 constitutional amendments, but do we need a 28th to protect our republic from religious authoritarianism? Freedom of religion is American. Forcing everyone else to live under your religion isn’t. Before we start rewriting the Constitution to prevent Sharia law or any other religious takeover, perhaps we should try enforcing the one we already have. After all, a Constitution nobody has the courage to defend is just an expensive piece of parchment behind glass.

This is Part 2 of a 2-part analysis examining the phenomenon of Democratic Socialism

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This is the second part of a two-part analysis that examines a specific historical claim: that the decades-long push of Democratic Socialists of America inside the Democrat Party follows the same “boring from within” logic the Bolsheviks used against the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks in 1917 — a small, disciplined vanguard using a broader coalition’s legitimacy and infrastructure to gain position, growing more candid about maximalist goals as it consolidates power, with no intention of remaining merely one faction among many.