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Means not doing what Greg Gianforte did<\/a>. \u00a0Nonetheless, again, to make this into some indictment on Trump or Trump supporters ignores the direction we\u2019ve been going for a good half century.<\/p>\n

Donald McClarey explains<\/a>. \u00a0I will say that I reject Kurt Schlichter\u2019s reasoning as much as I reject Mark\u2019s. \u00a0As Christians, we don\u2019t subscribe to the \u2018They did it to us so. bada bing!, we did it to them\u2019 mentality. \u00a0Hence my rejection of Trump\u2019s Tony Soprano shtick.<\/p>\n

Because the press has presented Gianforte as some \u2018 outgrowth of \u00a0Trump<\/a>\u2018,\u00a0however, it\u2019s worth pointing out that you\u2019d need to ignore the last few decades for that to make sense. \u00a0Nonetheless, ours is a \u2018Turn the other cheek\u2019, not \u2018Give me the brass knuckles\u2019, Faith.<\/p>\n

Note: if the tweets are true<\/a>, don\u2019t try to dismiss them as \u2018Dave, the reporter only tweeted that he\u2019d like to punch a 19 year old kid. \u00a0He didn\u2019t do it!\u2019 \u00a0 I can assure you that such a statement would have been shocking in the hazy, crazy days of my youth. \u00a0But then Van Halen was considered shocking in the days of my youth. \u00a0That\u2019s how things have developed and changed across the board. \u00a0That\u2019s the point Schlichter is making.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"