What even is the culture war anyways? Just wanted to ask. Especially when Trump is apparently us involved somehow, I don't even know at this point. There's too much stuff happening.
The culture war is when the left declares certain ideas to be required to be believed in, forbidden from being discussed, etc. They're demanding control over the culture and subcultures.
And for a very long time, the right had fallen for controlled opposition tactics, and decided to just let them have it.
You HAVE to believe that Diversity is our Strength, open borders are great for everyone not living in Israel, and that White People are Inherently Racist and can NEVER earn forgiveness for this fact. You aren't allowed to believe men and women should save themselves for marriage and that the proper place for a woman is at home helping raise the family, or god forbid that Homosexuality is a sin and that maybe you shouldn't have to bake the cake, bigot. And if you think that lesbians shouldn't have to suck a "feminine penis" then you're a TERF and should be prohibited from being seen in public ever again. More recently, you HAVE to believe that the police are literally gunning massive amounts of innocent blacks down in the street for literally no reason and poor dindus never do nuffin, the gentle and noble pavement apes that they are.
It's a war for control of the culture of the United States (or West in general, really). Their beliefs and ideas -- their culture -- are sacrosanct, your beliefs are fungible at best, hate crimes at worst. Every state must be California, every city must be Portland, because that's what the left likes and
they know better than you how to live your life.
This is because sometime around 2008 the epistemic closure in the left became terminal -- but not before the DSA types got a foothold -- and the left generally decided that everyone not the left were stupid, bigots, and above all else,
evil.
And you don't negotiate or learn from evil, you
destroy evil wherever and whenever you can.