In Norway, goats are used for meat, cheese, and milk. In the Old Testament, they were sometimes used ritually as \u201cscapegoats.\u201d The author of this piece seems to advocate a return to biblical usage. (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
You see, if it weren\u2019t for Mormon leaders\u2019 love of open borders and Muslim immigration, every decent person in America would flock to the noble banner of the Mr. Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n
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If you can stand to skim a few of them, take a look at the comments that follow the article. \u00a0They nicely illustrate something of both the emotional state and the analytical sophistication of\u00a0sufferers from acute Trumpulism \u2014 to say nothing of the love and respect that many of them have for Latter-day Saints. \u00a0But notice, too, the moderation of the article itself, which, while it pretends to have somehow detected the presence of\u00a0a lucid and coherent set of immigration policies in the public statements of the Dear Leader, dismisses those who fail to bow the knee to Mr. Donald J. Trump as \u201cfrenzied\u201d and as engaged in a \u201cjihad\u201d against the Great One.<\/p>\n
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By the way, the author is a former Republican. \u00a0What his party affiliation is today, I don\u2019t know. \u00a0Maybe he\u2019s a Republican again, now that Mr. Donald J. Trump is a Republican and has commandeered the party of Lincoln, Goldwater, and Reagan.<\/p>\n
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He\u2019s also a former Catholic, turned Evangelical. \u00a0In April 2008, he accused Benedict XVI, the serving pope at the time, of attempting to increase Hispanic immigration to the United States in order to boost Catholic Church membership in America.<\/p>\n
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I wonder if the author would return to Catholicism if His Eminence Donald Cardinal Trump were elected to the papacy in the next conclave, and if immigration were to be declared ex cathedra<\/em> the central dogma of the faith?<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Posted from Stardal, Norway<\/p>\n
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