NOW do you understand the Billy Graham/Mike Pence unwillingness to be alone in a room with a woman you're not married to??
As Republicans hold a convention that portrays President Trump as all but a living god, one of his most important supporters from the religious right is experiencing a precipitous fall from grace. Like a scene from a satire attacking the hypocrisy of organized religion, Jerry Falwell Jr. is being brought down in a sex scandal.
Uh huh.
Falwell — the son of the man who helped turn White evangelical Christians into a potent political force, and one of Trump’s most fervent advocates on the Christian right — has now resigned as the president of Liberty University after a social media post showing him with his pants half unzipped and his arm around a young woman went viral.
So is this an embarrassment to Trump, that one of his closest allies on the religious right is being so publicly shamed? Don’t bet on it. The truth is, while White evangelical leaders may still gather around to lay hands on Trump, he doesn’t really need them. He has their followers in a grip that won’t ever be loosened.
Paulie? Let me see if I can spell this out for you. For those of us evangelical Prots who support the president, Donald Trump is NOT a prophet. He is not the second coming of Elijah. He is America's First Government Employee, its First Civil Servant.
And that's all he is. Or ever will be.
Don't try this at home, as they say.
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Not only is Trump a hired hand, he works in the gig economy. He can get one extension of his contract at most.
I don't know any Trump voters, myself included, who think he is "all but a living god." Further, I don't know any whose votes are determined by what Jerry Falwell, Jr., thinks.
Democrats, including Joe Biden, have been credibly accused of sexual impropriety, and they have had long-time fundraising connections with creeps like Weinstein, Epstein, and Ed Buck. Spare me the hyperventilation about Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Trump is a salesman who regards me and those like me as a valuable customer--in the aggregate. He tries to deliver, and sometimes does. His Twitter "ads" can be mortifying, and sometimes he picks stupid fights with the competition. Frankly, he makes me cringe and go "No..." too much.
But that's what he is.
On the other hand, the Democrats regard my stint in the Knights of Columbus as grounds to disqualify me from public life.
In other words, they don't want me in the public square, let alone as someone whose interests they'd be happy to deliver on. Just ask Dan Lipinski.
Would that it were otherwise, but here we are.
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