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<\/center><\/p>\nYep — Trump’s approval rating has gone up<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Evangelicals know their comfortable little club is dying; many, surely, understand that it’s dying because the Christian narrative is a gaudy and preposterous fiction and they’ve been played for fools. But it’s easier to stick a finger in the eye of the people who are laughing at them than to admit they’ve wasted their lives on nonsense, and so they double-down on their support of Trump and the danger he poses to the country writ large<\/i>.<\/p>\n
They’re going to get worse, a lot worse, before things get better. The world has become a strange place that they don’t — can’t<\/i> — understand, either technologically or socially,and they now see what most of us regard as progress as an existential threat.<\/p>\n
The great irony is that Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a>, whom they piously hate, saw exactly this coming and his philosophical project was to head-off the nihilism that is now Republican policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You may have thought this morning as you brewed your coffee, “Wow … what a bad week for the Buffoon-in-Chief. Between publication of that book, and then the shithole remark, his approval ratings must be way down. Maybe,” cross your … Continue reading