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Has the party of Lincoln become Trump’s party?
Kudos to Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) for raising the not-unimportant issue of Donald Trump’s personal character, as that character is represented by what seems to be a remarkably tawdry social life:
And kudos to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore, for asking the question “Have Evangelicals who support Trump lost their values?”
People have tiptoed around such matters, perhaps feeling that we’re too sophisticated in these wonderful days to take note of them. But Mr. Trump’s repeated violations of solemn promises — his own and those of others — ought to give his supporters at least momentary pause, even if the promises were only marital vows and even if they merely betrayed women and children.
And, if only on the practical political level, there’s this: One of Mrs. Clinton’s potentially major liabilities with women and young people is her well-documented history of helping to cover up her husband’s sexual adventures, up to and including alleged rapes. We should never have been tolerant of such things, but surely we’re less accepting of them now than we once were, and many young voters, who may not have heard of such women as Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones, won’t be pleased to learn about them (as they very possibly will) between now and November. But, if the Republican nominee is a boastful serial adulterer, the contrast with the Clintons will be far less sharp than it ought to be.
Finally, shame on any Evangelicals out there who, while claiming to be conservatives, stayed home during the 2012 election because Mitt Romney “isn’t a Christian” and/or because he was a “flip-flopper” — and yet are now enthusiastically supporting the quite spectacularly unprincipled Donald Trump.
Really. Shame on them.
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