Dan Schaefer for Missouri

The conflict between the wealthy elite and the working class isn’t a polite debate. It’s a street fight for the American dream we once cherished. It’s time we started acting like it.

One has to stand in awe at the mental distance traveled over the decades; a voyage that began with Reagan calling the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire,” and ended with American conservatives crawling on their knees in Red Square.

Josh Hawley’s theology of governance isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous. It replaces pluralism with dogma, justice with hierarchy, and democracy with dominion. His vision may not wear jackboots, but it marches in the same direction: toward a society where dissent is sin, where rights are contingent on obedience, and where government is no longer of the people—but of the chosen.

We cling to an 18th-century structure and hope that somehow it will withstand the pressures of a 21st-century society. Clearly, our Constitution has hit a breaking point.

There's a growing movement that's quietly transforming America, dismantling the wall between church and state.