'Highest Since 2012': New Gallup Poll Reveals Conservatives Are DOMINATING The Culture War

A new Gallup poll released on Thursday has sent shockwaves through the political sphere, indicating that, by and large, the American people are pivoting toward social conservatism in a massive way unseen in the U.S. for over ten years.

The Gallup Annual Values and Beliefs Survey held between May 1st and 24th shows an astonishing eight-point increase in social conservatism with 38 percent of those polled identifying as "very conservative" or "conservative" regarding social issues, a level last seen in 2012. Only 29 percent of respondents claimed to be either "very liberal" or "liberal."

Writing for The Federalist, Tristan Justice declared that "social conservatism is entering a renaissance in the United States."

Gallup reported,

"The increase in conservative identification on social issues over the past two years is seen among nearly all political and demographic subgroups. The survey comes at a time when many states are considering policies regarding transgender matters, abortion, crime, drug use and the teaching of gender and sexuality in schools."

GALLUP POLL: Social Conservatism in U.S. Highest in About a Decade

— 38% say they are conservative on social issues, highest since 2012

— 44% say they are economically conservative, also highest since 2012https://t.co/Z3YEEzGkay pic.twitter.com/NHWOHM03ol

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"For most of the past eight years, Americans were about as likely to say they were liberal as conservative on social issues. This year, there is a more obvious conservative advantage. The shift is mostly due to increasing social conservatism among Republicans, at a time when social issues such as transgender rights, abortion and other hot-button concerns are prominent in the national public debate."

As Justice concluded for The Federalist, this reaction has arisen in concert with a leftist upswelling of attempts to mainstream acceptance of transgenderism, even applying it inappropriately to pre-pubescent children, and a renewed aggressive push toward abortion-on-demand in response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Much of this has apparently backfired, as evidenced by a poll from Summit.org with McLaughlin and Associates finding 75 percent of Americans feel the transgender movement has "gone too far."

Indeed, both polls combined suggest that the radical-left, racial, and sexual identitarian activism of the last twenty years has 'jumped the shark' so to speak with efforts to push such extreme cultural change on the American people having caused many to recoil in disgust.

Some claim that in the political theory of Joseph Overton, the left has tried to move the window of acceptable discourse too far, too fast. While more conservative voices conclude, often from a biblical basis, that there are some boundaries that we simply must never cross, namely abortion-on-demand and the sexualization of children. In either event, one thing seems certain: the American people have had enough.