1st, Peter Wehner, who has served in 3 Republican administrations, and is an evangelical individual writes about how Donald Trump lives a life that should be anathema to evangelical voters and expresses dismay that such a large percentage of evangelical voters support Trump. Well, consistency is not something I have found in every evangelical individual I know and some certainly used religion as a cover for sinning, saying no one is perfect, but you can earn forgiveness.
I might offer a different view for Mr. Wehner. A certain substantial percentage of evangelicals use religion as a cover for bigotry and ignorance and can be lead by lambs to slaughter. That after all is what GOP leaders have been doing with them by promulgating untruths since President Obama was elected and advocating policies that are completely unacceptable to Democrats, who have the power to stop them in our Democracy.
Link to Peter Wehne column
And Roger Cohen recounts Congressional GOP responsibility for the rise of Trump Fascism by their undemocratic and rude behaviors of the last 7 years. This column is actually about Europe's alarm at the rise of Trump, but it contains the following:
"Trump is telling people something is rotten in the state of America. The message resonates because the rot is there."
"He has emerged from a political system corrupted by money, locked in an echo chamber of insults, reduced to the show business of an endless campaign, blocked by a kind of partisanship run amok that leads Republican members of Congress to declare they will not meet with President Obama’s eventual nominee for the Supreme Court, let alone listen to him or her. This is an outrage! The public interest has become less than an afterthought."
"Enter the smart, savvy, scowling showman. He is self-financed and promises restored greatness. He has a bully’s instinct for the jugular and a sense of how sick an angry America is of politics as usual and political correctness. He hijacks a Republican Party that has paved the way for him with years of ranting, bigotry, bellicosity and what Robert Kagan, in The Washington Post, has rightly called “racially tinged derangement syndrome” with respect to President Obama."
Link to Roger Cohen Column
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