Tocqueville on polarization

The 19th-century French Catholic, Alexis de Tocqueville, fashioned himself “a new kind of liberal” but was fascinated by Puritanism’s rigid harmony between liberty and religion. He also thought Puritan Protestantism would splinter and one part of America would view liberty as the flight from Christianity, and the other believe a culture of freedom requires its full embrace.

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