Why is a Trump commission attacking Nietzsche, Foucault and Sartre?

The commission attacks these philosophers’ ideas as morally corrupting but Trump may be the ultimate postmodern politician, lacking fundamental principles and any regard for facts In May last year, US President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission. Last month, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the United States’ founding, it released a 224-page draft report titled, “Americans’ First Freedom”. I gather the current government and its key support base, the religious right, consider American society too secularised – to such an extent that it amounts to systemic religious discrimination. That’s what the commission is tasked with rectifying. The report advocates a different understanding of the separation of church and state, and it makes various proposals to reverse entrenched secularisation in education, government, the military, employment and public healthcare. It also suggests setting up hotlines to rat out people in positions of authority who “discriminate” against people’s religious liberty. Whether the US becomes a Christian theocracy, democracy or autocracy is none of my business.

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