Social Marxists have long sought to weaponize compassion, to beat the plowshare of love into a sword. And, they’ve been highly successful. For nearly a century, we’ve heard that collectivization is compassion, that the forced redistribution of wealth is the charitable thing, even Christlike. After all, didn’t the early church “have all things in common?”

Liberals tell us that abortion is about a woman’s right to choose, that affirming gender identity is enlightened, that defining love subjectively is inclusive, that unrestrained illegal immigration is cosmopolitan, and that social justice is a virtue to which equality of outcome is the modern analog to the golden rule.

The platitudes sound good, but it’s all a lie. Just as the serpent beguiled Eve with poisonous words imbued with the sweetness of honey, so the Democrat party seeks to turn empathy into a weapon of cultural and political mass destruction. The party’s leadership is either sympathetic or in thrall to the radical left. Every pillar of the civil society which social Marxists have targeted for subversion — education, the press, the law, religion, and the family — are also being undermined by Democrat party policies. What makes America a democratic republic is under constant assault by elements in our government which relentlessly agitate for a soft cultural revolution.

All of this and more is subject to the piercing analysis of author, speaker, and wildly popular podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. In her latest book, Toxic........

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