{"id":33702,"date":"2016-05-23T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=33702"},"modified":"2016-05-23T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T16:20:18","slug":"independent-journal-mormons-hold-the-key-for-3rd-party-success-against-trump-and-hillary-heres-where-they-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/05\/independent-journal-mormons-hold-the-key-for-3rd-party-success-against-trump-and-hillary-heres-where-they-stand.html","title":{"rendered":"Independent Journal: &#8220;Mormons Hold the Key for 3rd Party Success Against Trump and Hillary. Here\u2019s Where They Stand.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33703\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/800px-AlbionBasinWF2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33703\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33703\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/05\/800px-AlbionBasinWF2.jpg\" alt=\"Utah wildflowers\" width=\"596\" height=\"446\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wildflowers in the Albion Basin, near Alta, Utah \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/injo.com\/2016\/05\/609915-mormons-libertarian-trump-hillary\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_campaign=political-edit&amp;utm_medium=owned\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/injo.com\/2016\/05\/609915-mormons-libertarian-trump-hillary\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_campaign=political-edit&amp;utm_medium=owned<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m proud of my fellow-religionists\u2019 misgivings about Mr. Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>People sometimes wonder whether we\u2019re really all that different from other Americans, and from conservative Evangelicals. \u00a0Well, Evangelicals (and certain Evangelical leaders) have gone all out for Mr. Trump \u2014 but Latter-day Saints have been demonstrably much less inclined to support him. \u00a0And that, it seems to me, is a very clear marker of genuine difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 http:\/\/injo.com\/2016\/05\/609915-mormons-libertarian-trump-hillary\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_campaign=political-edit&amp;utm_medium=owned \u00a0 I\u2019m proud of my fellow-religionists\u2019 misgivings about Mr. Donald Trump. \u00a0 People sometimes wonder whether we\u2019re really all that different from other Americans, and from conservative Evangelicals. \u00a0Well, Evangelicals (and certain Evangelical leaders) have gone all out for Mr. Trump \u2014 but Latter-day Saints have been demonstrably much less inclined to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Independent Journal: &quot;Mormons Hold the Key for 3rd Party Success Against Trump and Hillary. 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