Jerry Falwell, Jr., explains his endorsement of Donald Trump to the Liberty University campus newspaper.
God called King David a man after God’s own heart even though he was an adulterer and a murderer. You have to choose the leader that would make the best king or president and not necessarily someone who would be a good pastor. We’re not voting for pastor-in-chief. It means sometimes we have to choose a person who has the qualities to lead and who can protect our country and bring us back to economic vitality, and it might not be the person we call when we need somebody to give us spiritual counsel.”
It’s a bland variation of that famous remark attributed to George Orwell:
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
I’ll be damned if I can understand how any genuine-article adult can believe The Donald is the man to do that, but that’s beside the point; notice what he offhandedly acknowledges: That his more-pious-than-though world is a fantasy made possible only by grown-ups more willing than he to get their hands dirty.