I remember a few years ago, religious conservatives and social (i.e. not religious) conservatives seemed to be in agreement on countless issues. Hell, I remember having numerous religious conservatives approve of me saying that I may be a non-believer, but I would defend their right to worship how they chose, because we agreed on the important things. They shared the same views, they would just come at them from a different starting point (religious conservatives would come at it from the starting point of their faith, societal conservatives would come at it from a starting point of their own sense of right and wrong). But in the past few months I've noticed that religious conservatives have taken to attacking anyone--conservative, republican, or otherwise--who doesn't share their belief system and/or religion. I don't really understand this, as the only thing it's doing is driving people away from the conservative/republican side, and pushing them into either just abstaining from voting, or refusing to participate in any political discourse, which won't exactly solve problems, as we need every person that we can get to defend our society against the degenerates that are trying to destroy it.

Did Trump "losing" in 2020 really fracture the right that badly? I'm not sure that's the case, because this is something that I've only really seen come to the forefront in the past year or so.

I don't know what to make of it. It's honestly beginning to seem like some people on the right are laser focused on becoming the weird puritans of the 90s who were mocked to no end and did more harm to conservative values than they did to further them.

And before anyone accuses me of saying that religious people should embrace atheism or give up their own faith, that's not what I'm getting at at all. I'm merely saying that if we want conservative values and common sense to come back to society, we need to fight for that and not fight each other. If there needs to be any bickering between different "factions" on the right, I think we'd all be better off if we did that after the psychotic leftists are removed from the picture.

There seems to be this crazy purity spiral that's forming on the right, and I'm afraid that what's going to happen is that we're going to all become so focused on our own particular brand of conservatism that we're going to lose sight of the big picture, and we're going to end up losing our society to radical leftists.

I'm still dead set on fighting against the degenerate leftists in society. I don't foresee myself leaving this fight anytime soon, mainly because I don't need anyone's approval to stand up for the things that I believe in. But not everyone is like me, and if we drive those people away, we're never going to win another election, after all a vote is a vote. And then it doesn't matter if you were a religious conservative or societal conservative, your values are going to vanish from our society just like every other conservative/Republican's values.