{"id":5082,"date":"2016-11-11T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2016-11-11T11:24:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:24:51","slug":"miscellany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5082","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>People such as Albert Mohler and Russell Moore were publicly discussing the eventual social consequences of well-documented evangelical support for Donald Trump as early as last February &#8212; before Super Tuesday and a time when there were lots of choices for conservative voters.  That is, Trump&#8217;s swagger and <i>braggadocio<\/i> and overt malice had got evangelicals in his pocket very early on.  They stayed there, too, through months of execrable conduct and a thoroughgoing absence of anything remotely approximating plans or policies.<\/p>\n<p>In the event, evangelicals comprised 27% of the voters on Tuesday, and 81% of them voted for Trump.  He got more support from evangelicals than either George W. Bush or Mitt Romney.  It is a rock-solid fact: Evangelicals made Trump the Republican nominee, and they carried him across the finish line on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump protestors ought to be standing in front of churches; that&#8217;s where the sickness was nourished until it could flower.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>If evangelicals are so concerned with &#8216;religious freedom,&#8217; why did 81% of them vote for a man who promises a religious test as a condition of admission to the United States?<\/p>\n<p>Never mind; we all know the answer to that one.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>How could anybody have watched the almost nightly, and barely contained, violence associated with Trump&#8217;s rallies and not known that his victory would green-light the darkness of the KKK, neo-Nazism, nihilistic white trash?  Are that many of my fellow citizens actually that stupid and short-sighted, or did some subterranean part of them <i>want<\/i> &#8212; albeit at arms length, like cowards &#8212; the ugliness now growing and intensifying across the country?<\/p>\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t know.  But the universal failure of evangelical and alt-right leadership to utter a single public word of reproach suggests &#8212; yeah, the sumbidg&#8217;s are getting exactly what they wanted.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t blame Muslims, or women building careers, or gays, or ethnic and racial minorities, for their uneasiness about the future. For that matter, neither do I blame anybody at all for wondering if the country is going to become a fascist madhouse; everything needed is in place.<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People such as Albert Mohler and Russell Moore were publicly discussing the eventual social consequences of well-documented evangelical support for Donald Trump as early as last February &#8212; before Super Tuesday and a time when there were lots of choices &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5082\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082"}],"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=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}