Well, there's some left after the decades of Trump's predecessors chipping away from it, then democrats barely building any back due to fear of alienating moderate republican voters.
We're already paying to subsidize churches without taxing them, including the ones that keep getting caught trying to hide clergy guilty of SA from law enforcement
This "All or nothing" bullshit helped put that asshole back in office, and it needs to stop.
Harris got shit on because there was always MORE she could have done. Simply not being a rapist felon should have been more than enough to win that election, but we kept nit picking about everything on our wish list that she couldn't do, and helped convince the country that she wasn't good enough for us, and now look where we are. We got NOTHING on our wishlist and are likely to lose a lot of what we had before.
A full blown anti-theist candidate would scare too many people. They would be even easier to vilify than Biden or Harris. We need to take little steps in the right direction, not just sit and watch democracy fall apart because the only person who could have stopped it "didn't threaten to bomb Israel enough" or "never mentioned changing what gets printed on the money".
Like a child that throws a tantrum about not being able to get two desserts, so they get nothing at all.
Honestly, we've had the "little steps in the right direction" off and on for eight decades now. Look where it's gotten us.
When was the last time a powerful politician gave a damn about the poor rather than going on about the "middle class"?
Where have all our Unions gone?
Has the federal government ever done anything even approaching the scale of change needed to address Climate Change?
What's happened to our infrastructure?
Where has our freedom gone? Has it taken peace with it when it left?
We've already lost everything that could be said for the United States being good, setting aside any claims of greatness entirely, and have lost almost everything that would qualify it as decent. The politicians have realized they can get the votes of some of the people who want change by branding themselves incrementalists and then putting indefinitely many increments between what we have now and meaningful change.
Contrast with history. When has incrementalism ever worked for us? We got the New Deal from one President who knew how to lead. He didn't give us a 1/2*Xth measure of making the American economy work for the workers. No, he got as much as possible then died wanting to do more.
Democrats always pave the way for regressive legislation. The cops that are about to be weaponized to assist with ICE were militarized by Biden and cop cities. Democrat ratchet effect keeps helping shift the entire country to the right. Instead of fighting the systems of exploitation and oppression, liberals will only fight the manufactured villains without challenging the entire system. Trump is the manifestation of 50 years of refusing to hold politicians accountable