{"id":13238,"date":"2021-04-23T15:02:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13238"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:02:16","slug":"biblical-sickness-and-civic-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13238","title":{"rendered":"Biblical sickness and civic life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>New York Times&#8217;<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/22\/opinion\/trump-gop.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Brooks<\/a> &#8212; the house conservative &#8212; notices that Republican loonies have begun to think of themselves as an abused remnant.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s happening can only be called a venomous panic attack. Since the election, large swaths of the Trumpian right have decided America is facing a crisis like never before and they are the small army of warriors fighting with Alamo-level desperation to ensure the survival of the country as they conceive it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice that, as the nation <i>writ large<\/i> calms down and recovers from the serial lunacies of Trumpism, the hard corps seem to conceive of themselves with a perspective that hearkens to the Bible:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>    Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you,<br \/>\n    and persecute you, and shall say all manner<br \/>\n    of evil against you falsely, for my sake.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">Matthew 5:11<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Recall the improbable-seeming adoration of evangelicals for Donald Trump.  And when people like me (and probably you, and millions of others) roll our eyes and ridicule them, why &#8230; <i>it&#8217;s the persecution foretold in the Good Book!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It will never be possible to reason with these morons or ease them into the communion of democratic ideals; their malice toward a world that has left them behind, and in which they are out-of-step and uncomfortable, is too great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times&#8217; David Brooks &#8212; the house conservative &#8212; notices that Republican loonies have begun to think of themselves as an abused remnant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13238\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13246,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13238\/revisions\/13246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}