Stop Hating the Puritans

For decades it has been standard procedure for the Left to parody the Puritans as tyrannical scolds. This is, of course, because the Puritans stand diametrically opposed to the Left’s enforced equality and libertinism. More recently, the Right—or what passes for the Right—has fallen into this practice. They analogize between our political enemies and the first New Englanders, a shameful, impious practice in the vein of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who garnered fame off slandering his forefathers. It makes sense for the reigning leftist religious establishment to make this move. But it makes no sense for the dissident Right to invoke the comparison. That is, unless you’re Left adjacent. I mean, libertarian.