Tuesday, November 7, 2017

A Year Later, Reflections On The 2016 Election - Jeff Wiersma

So it’s been a year since Trump won the election.

Looking back, I can see I was naive in my hope that - despite the evidence of four decades of hypocrisy and cynical partisanship by Religious Right leaders - those who dedicate an inordinate amount of their life pontificating about “morals” and “values” wouldn’t then vote for Donald Trump of all people.

And many of them - unfathomably - still support him.

I should’ve known better.  Much of the US Religious Right has a blind spot for authoritarians and demagoguery that is so large you could drive a Trump through it.