THE ACE OF SPADES CONJECTURE: “Most of tribal signaling — genuflecting to Ta-Nehisi Coates, for example — is not a form of politics, but is properly understood as a form of religion. You’re not supposed to ask about the parts of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ claims that don’t make sense, in the same way you’re not really supposed to ask how Noah fit all those animals on the ark. These are not political arguments, he asserts, but ‘sermons.’”

Well, yes. But then, the entire 19^th and 20^th century efforts of the “Progressive” movement and its offshoots “in a hurry” (Communism and Fascism) were attempts to first destroy God and then to build a replacement religion.