Long-time readers know that I’m neither a fan nor a respecter of the Evangelical community, although I do try to be polite in my disbelief and distaste. SemDem on The Daily Kos, however, is a lot more pointed than I am in the wake of President Trump’s disastrous Syrian decision:
This current slaughter is exactly what Turkey, Russia, and Syria wanted, and they got it because Trump is the weakest president in history. Trump always, always does what dictators tell him to do: rollover. He has no spine. By the way, those aren’t my words, those are the words from the National Security Council official on the phone call.
For the record, Trump has retweeted and thanked Wayne Allen Root, who made the claim that Trump was loved like the “second coming of God.” In reality, he is a dangerous sociopath who cages toddlers and now, allows them to be killed for his own nefarious purposes. That isn’t God-like at all. Rather, it is the personification of evil.
I went to an ultra-religious school in my youth run by right-wing Christians. They kept warning us that one day, Satan would return. Even at a very young age, I imagined how they’d fight him when that day arrived.
Never in my wildest imagination did I think they’d worship him.
SemDem also repeats this tweet:
At the Values Voter Summit, conservative Christians I spoke with had little concern re: Syria pullout and the Kurds:
“I do have a lot faith in President Trump, that he knows things that we don’t know,” Mary Holloway from Texas told me. “People should trust their president.”
— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) October 12, 2019
Sadly, no. To the extent that he is truthful in public, he’s at least worthy of being given the benefit of the doubt. President Trump, given his volume of outright lies, boasts, attacks on non-white Americans, and his vast incompetency at, well, virtually every function assigned to the Presidency, he doesn’t get that benefit. The person quoted above, Mary Holloway, has abdicated her responsibility, and, if I had to guess, it’s because the alternative, taking responsibility for having supported such an utterly dismal Presidency, whose Administration has resulted in such a disaster for those least able to defend themselves, is too much for her wobbly little sense of morality to bear.
So bear SemDem’s critique in mind next time an Evangelical tries to persuade you of something. Their judgment may be suspect.
