The Power—and Peril—of Political Bundling

I hear talk amid the resurgence of a Religious Right about the need for more partisan loyalty. What was once an argument about voting “the lesser of two evils” has, for some, morphed into claiming the lesser evil is in fact good—that dogged political commitment to one side, adopting all its principles and policies, signals faithfulness, proves we “know what time it is,” and ensures Christian conservatives will win the culture war. The bigger danger today isn’t that the church gets tied to