are making a dent. Especially in the US. Agree that many among the faith communities here are recoiling from the blatant actions of the far right extremists. At some point, enough is enough. People of good faith - and I mean that in humanistic terms - increasingly recognize extremism as a fringe of American society as a whole. And sadly, seem surprised at their maneuvering to influence politics. They've been at it for a while and have chosen local, county, state positions to establish a base. Those typically have small electoral turnout and are ripe for minority control.
Yet I hold out some hope for the pendulum. Take the growth of support for sexual minorities, typified by the legislative / court battles for equal marriage rights. The country is just about at the point of broad legal equality. The extremists are loosing that one, very publicly.
Self-identified atheists have always had some "baggage" in our popular culture. A bad rap for the most part. Yet it persists. Some of it may be the perception that atheists are not mainstream, by choice perhaps or by public opinion, always against something yet not for anything in the general culture of the country. I think that's changing, as well.
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