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Even though conservatives win elections, they gradually lose the deeper culture war over public values.
Ever since The Enlightenment, the tide of civilization flows left. Human decency wins. Abraham Lincoln called it "the better angels of our nature". Martin Luther King Jr. said the moral arc of the universe "bends toward justice". This month's Supreme Court ruling was another step in the slow advance.
(Informed Comment - 6/25/20)
(Haught is editor emeritus of West Virginia's largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail.)
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