That was then. This is now.

Elsewhere, my hapless victim Stephen Smoot makes a good point, using the nineteenth-century “wanted” poster above as an illustration:

Times have changed a bit.  Whatever one thinks of our new president, it was rather remarkable to have the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the center of the inaugural platform, on the steps of the United States Capitol, providing the musical bridge between the swearing in, by Justice Clarence Thomas, of Vice President Mike Pence and the administration of the oath of office to President Donald J. Trump by Chief Justice John Roberts.  John Taylor and George Q. Cannon would, I think, have been astonished.

But it’s too early to become entirely complacent:

“Inflammatory pastor preached to Trump before inauguration”

“Pastor preaching to Trump on Friday has called Mormon church a ‘cult’”