could this be the end of the culture wars?

Yes.  We may be witnessing the end of the culture wars as the primary cultural drama of American life.  I suspect that for a time, the pitched battle between cultural-political conservatives and their liberal counterparts may intensify after a post-election pause, but it is inexorably now drifting from center stage. It’s a simple and unrelenting matter of demographics.
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