It's important to keep reading Rod Dreher. I do not have time to offer additional or better comments on the three posts listed below, but perhaps I can do so at a later time. Each is important reading.
-- Here is a post on Trump's evangelical support and it's pervasive pessimism -- which reflects my own thinking.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/evangelicals-trump-shield-2020/
-- See also this on the religion of the New York Times: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/new-york-times-editorial-staff-meeting-racism-oberlin-faculty-senate/
And this on progressive education in California - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/california-to-become-yugoslavia-ethnic-studies/