Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "The Election and the Culture Wars." Commentary Magazine. May, 2000.

Excerpt:

A funny thing happened on the way to the presidential nominations this year. We discovered not only that the candidates were not quite what we thought them to be (this happens in all electoral campaigns; it is why we have them). We also discovered, with the dramatic emergence of religious conservatives in the Republican campaign, that America is not quite what many of us had persuaded ourselves it had become.

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