A professor with a good track-record says Trump will lose in November.
Certainly, I hope this guy is right. So far as I’m concerned, though, it’s not enough that Trump loses; I want to see the Republican Party annihilated, destroyed, put out of business … forever. They have defended and enabled the most corrupt, incompetent, and downright boorish president in American history, and there must be a consequence.
Covid-19 is proving that an unwillingness to listen to doctors and scientists can do great harm. Religious freedom and public health aren’t actually incompatible. But countering the anti-science bias that has become a stalking horse for the culture wars is crucial to creating better policies and allowing citizens to make the best possible choices for themselves and for society.
The problem with the south is Southern Baptists, who understand clearly that a good education — especially a science-based education — is fatal to their bumpkin superstitions, and so they’ve created and enforced a culture that disdains expertise. It’s known as the Bible Belt for a reason.
You can watch Donald Trump’s entire Axios interview above — if you can bear it.
Especially shocking are Trump’s remarks about John Lewis, mentioning twice that Lewis had skipped his inauguration, and a repeat of his [Trump’s] claim that he had done more for black Americans than any previous American leader. As with most Holy Men, I find myself wondering whether he actually believes the things he says, or if he is cynically peddling a marketing lie to idiots.
Trump’s sanction must come at the polls, and beyond. For the sake of our constitutional republic, he must lose, and lose badly. Yet that should be just a start: We should only honor former presidents who uphold and sustain our nation’s enduring democratic values. There should be no schools, bridges or statues devoted to Trump. His name should live in infamy, and he should be remembered, if at all, for precisely what he was — not a president, but a blundering cheat.
Unavoidably, necessarily, there will be a Trump Presidential Library. If it were up to me, it would be tucked away on remote acreage at Fort Leavenworth.
I have long thought of Albert Mohler as a sort of benchmark for pious lunacy, an exemplar for the intellectual damage done by Christianity when somebody gets sucked into taking it seriously.
What do you know? Mohler isn’t crazy enough for the Pulpit and Pen crowd. His offense? He’s not unreservedly enthusiastic about John MacArthur’s refusal to obey California’s lockdown order.
I'm not there yet, but I could be in another six months…
I fear that the Churchill scholar is almost playing the role of Neville Chamberlain as regards the most consequential issues facing his school and the SBC.
— Brandon Vanderford (@Totally_Brandon) August 3, 2020
Neville Chamberlain, who returned from a conference with Adolf Hitler proclaiming that he’d found “peace for our time”? Mohler is just like that Neville Chamberlain because he seems to think that churches ought to cooperate with efforts to control the spread of a deadly pandemic?
This is why Covid-19 isn’t coming under control; the evangelicals’ relentless attacks against science and expertise have borne fruit.
We know the feeling.
— Miguel L. Llenas (@miguelLlenas) August 3, 2020
Right. It is s-o-o-o distressing when a safely-crazy Holy Man occasionally makes worldly sense.
None of which is to suggest, at all, that I feel kind of sorry for Mohler; I do not. He has devoted his life to the degradation of other human beings and the disparagement of science, and it tickles me to see him on the receiving end. I just wish he were being eaten by educated people rather than even bigger ignoramuses.
