.@drmoore Russell Moore is truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. A nasty guy with no heart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 9, 2016
Seriously: It gets no better than this. Evangelicals have broken for Trump in a big way, because he gives voice to their subterranean malice, and Russell Moore and Albert the Pious have been frantic to somehow distance themselves from evangelical support for him. Trump has already destroyed forever the fiction that they are kingmakers who control the evangelical voting bloc; now, they just want to escape without being somehow linked in the public mind with the ambulatory cesspool that is The Donald.
So Russell Moore did what anybody with access to a television studio does these days: He went on television to denounce Trump as an exemplar for “reality television moral sewage.”
This from a man whose own denomination can’t be trusted to report it to the police when Pastor Bubba is caught being extra-friendly with the children’s choir, but will write dozens of letters to the judge pleading for leniency when Pastor Bubba gets caught and is about to be sentenced. And which will never, ever, lift a finger on behalf of Pastor Bubba’s victims.
Now, take a look at the re-tweets of Trump’s denunciation of Moore: as of this writing, 1581 and climbing fast; likes, 5113 and climbing fast.
I imagine @DrMoore is getting a lot of hate-tweets, too.
And how goes it for Moore’s not-exactly-eloquent rejoinder to Trump?
— Russell Moore (@drmoore) May 9, 2016
These clowns deserve each other. As somebody or other once said, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”