here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trump 2016! \u00a0Make America great again!<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s one worry: \u00a0If Mr. Donald J. Trump fails to obtain the White House, will Latter-day Saints be blamed by his followers for that\u00a0defeat? \u00a0If Mr. Trump acquires the presidency but Latter-day Saints have proven insufficiently enthusiastic in their electoral support for him, will he and his followers bear a grudge? \u00a0(It would be very uncharacteristic of him if he didn\u2019t\u00a0<\/em>bear a grudge.)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several of my readers have suggested that only my personal arrogance prevents me from endorsing Mr. Donald J. Trump to succeed Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan in the White House.<\/p>\n
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Maybe so. \u00a0What other reason could there possibly be?<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 More than once, a strong undercurrent of anti-Mormonism has been obvious\u00a0on the Trumpist propaganda site Breitbart News. \u00a0(And that\u2019s without even looking at the Breitbart reader comments, which can be bloodcurdling.) \u00a0 Breitbart\u2019s boss, Mr. Stephen Bannon, now heads up Mr. Donald J. Trump\u2019s\u00a0presidential campaign. \u00a0 I\u2019ve already mentioned this item\u00a0from Breitbart, and […]<\/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-36227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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