It is the last words of both of these writers that are most curious and most disturbing. Pro-family, Christian groups like Focus on the Family waged a veritable crusade against Abercrombie and Fitch several years ago for dressing up their models in skimpy, suggestive clothing. But now, because we live in TrumpWorld, when women dress up in, forgive us, slutty-looking clothes, we are to celebrate that borderline pornography as ‘busty’, ‘beautiful’, and ‘traditional values’.

We can already hear the reactions so far: ‘Walt, you old prude, you need to relax a little and just celebrate a win over the woke Left.’ That’s fine; we can take the arrows. And there is a certain amount of truth in such criticism. A change in corporate advertisements away from transgender models, effeminate men, etc., is certainly welcome.

But to end one’s analysis at that point is to make a critical error. It assumes that a political/cultural victory over wokeism via the exaltation of a woman’s shapely breasts and buttocks is tantamount to ‘salvation’ for the US/West. It is not. https://orthodoxreflections.com/winning-battles-losing-wars/