Disloyal Opposition by Julie Kelly

Author:Julie Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2020-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

EVANGELICALS

Nowhere is NeverTrump’s contempt for white, working-class Americans who voted for Donald Trump more evident than in their appalling condemnation of Trump-supporting evangelicals. If their collective scorn had been repeatedly aimed at any other religious group, they would have been called out, and rightly so, as bigots. But since their target is faithful Christians who dared to vote for someone who is on his third marriage and said naughty things about women in private conversations, NeverTrump not only gets a pass but is egged on by their Christian-hating buddies on the Left.

Evangelical leaders who endorsed Trump and continue to support the president because they rightly view him as someone who will fight to defend the unborn, protect religious liberty, and appoint conservative jurists to the federal courts, including the Supreme Court, are excoriated by NeverTrump. “It’s a disgrace,” John Podhoretz, who is not Christian, said of Jerry Falwell Jr.’s and Franklin Graham’s backing of Trump after allegations about Trump’s 2003 dalliance with Stormy Daniels were made public. “These guys are supposed to be moral leaders, you give people a mulligan?”74 Not only is Podhoretz a political ignoramus, but he is uninformed about Christian tenets such as forgiveness and redemption.

Evangelicals who defend Trump are under a swoon of “religious fervor immune to reason,” says Jennifer Rubin.75 (Irony alert!) In a tweetstorm in early 2019, Tom Nichols finally said the quiet parts of NeverTrump out loud: They have never been comfortable with faithful conservatives, Nichols admitted, but tolerated them as part of the Republican coalition. He should have stopped them from assuming power within the party—as if he from his academic perch on the East Coast could have done so—and now regrets he didn’t purge evangelicals from the GOP. “I knew the political evangelicals were hypocrites; I didn’t realize they would go to the wall” for Trump.76

CNN’s Ana Navarro mocked social-value Christian conservatives as “pearl clutchers” who need to “look at themselves in the mirror” for not criticizing comments made on Fox News.77

In his profane anti-Trump tirade disguised as a book, Rick Wilson repeatedly taunts evangelicals. Admitting he’s not one himself, Wilson reminded the flock that “being a goddamned degenerate pussy-grabber with a lifetime of adultery, venality, and dishonesty is not, to my knowledge, one of the core tenets of the Christian faith.” Wilson, whose claim to fame is the infamous Reverend Wright commercial he produced during the 2008 McCain presidential campaign and serving as a “strategist” for Evan McMullin, downplayed evangelicals’ legitimate worry about the Left’s infestation of every American institution. Evangelicals are the “dead-enders of the Trump World” who “continue to feel as if they’re under attack from secular culture, the media, and the government.”78

Wilson, rather than admit that reality, stupidly questions its legitimacy.

One of the best shticks in politics, as NeverTrump figured out, is to blast your own side. To that end, David French has the martyr role down pat. Nothing gratifies the Left more than religious conservatives using biblical phrases to pound the political pulpit about the sins committed by other religious conservatives.

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