Reply #20: I interpreted his statement entirely differently than you two.

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To me, when he is talking about the secular left, he is simply acknowledging a subset of the Democratic party membership, perhaps a majority subset, for that matter. We see both groups here in this forum every day, the secular and the believers who both support progressive politics.

I see no hint of theocracy in this statement at all. What he is pointing out, to me, is what others have; that a more centrist, and somewhat more conservative group, voted Democratic this last election, and gave the Democrats a majority in Congress, and they, in a sense, won the election, or at least made the critical difference in creating majority numbers at the polls.