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Michael Wolff, in addition to chronicling the massive dysfunction of the freak show in the White House<\/a>, offers this small vignette of the man Church Militant and countless Christianists seriously believe is God\u2019s Anointed:<\/p>\n

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So much family values\/prolife winning in this tidily documented book<\/a>.\u00a0 But, of course, the thoroughly Trumpified old prolife movement knows what kind of man he is.\u00a0 They adored him when he took vengeance on his infant nephew with cerebral palsy, when he called his years of dodging STDs and the draft as his \u201cpersonal Vietnam\u201d, when he spat in the faces of POWs and Gold Star families, when he bragged about being a sex predator, and when he mocked a reporter\u2019s disability.\u00a0 These things are no obstacle for \u201cprolife\u201d Christianists, any more than his Administration\u2019s lengthening record<\/a> of malice, neglect, and cruelty<\/a> to the disabled or his penchant for vindictively tearing mothers and fathers apart from their children and deporting them<\/a> (with Christianists reviling bishops like Tobin who defend them).\u00a0 Christianists *love* such diabolical cruelty and perversion.\u00a0 It feels like *power* to them (and indeed it is) and power is their sole metric.\u00a0 These perversions and assaults on elementary decency are things he gets away with and things that (sweetest of all) \u201cmake liberal snowflakes cry\u201d.\u00a0 Spite is delicious to them.\u00a0 And they have told me so many, many times.\u00a0 They *love* that \u201che drives his liberal enemies crazy\u201d\u2013meaning this love *this* filth, because it\u2019s these outrages that are what incense he enemies\u2013who share not \u201cliberalism\u201d but \u201cbasic decency\u201d in common.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Trumpian \u201cprolife\u201d movement, we all remember emotional blackmail like this, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n

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Well, good news!\u00a0 God\u2019s anointed\u2013just named Prolife God Hero Wonder Emperor of the Universe this year by the Bought and Paid For Prolife Poobahs\u2013 refunded Planned Parenthood five times in 2017<\/a>.\u00a0 And not just Trump.\u00a0 So did his whole Congressional Party of Holy Spirit Anointed Heroes chosen by God and above question or rebuke.<\/p>\n

Five times.<\/p>\n

Good job.\u00a0 Why, if Hillary had been elected, she might have refunded Planned Parenthood five times!\u00a0 The contrast is obvious!<\/p>\n

Ah!\u00a0 But he gave us Neil Gorsuch!\u00a0 Yes. Gorsuch who says Roe<\/em> is \u201csettled law\u201d.\u00a0 So that\u2019s totally gonna lead to the complete outlaw of abortion in the US as a real true thing that is not a complete delusional fantasy.\u00a0 Just the way Reagan and Bush appointees helped double and triple underscore Roe.\u00a0 Newsflash: our abortion regime is 100% the creation of GOP appointees.\u00a0 100%.<\/p>\n

As the Trumpian prolife movement gives itself over more and more deeply to the Trump cult and embraces the fascistic notion of the magical power of the Dear Leader\u2019s lying word to create reality (in\u00a0diabolical parody\u00a0the divine Power of the Word God speaks in creation and redemption), the Christianist cult it has become lies to itself that it is moving ever closer to the \u201coutlaw of abortion\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not.\u00a0 It is, in fact, creating all the conditions, not only for an increase in abortion (because of the savage economic pressure this administration will place on poor families, pressuring them to abort), but for the complete discrediting of the prolife movement in the eyes of average people as anything but a front for the GOP culture of death.\u00a0 It has already distinguished itself with its apologetics for war and torture and the death penalty\u2013and its intense hostility to Pope Francis.\u00a0 But to these achievements it has now added a *passionate* defense of a sex predator and, in Roy Moore, a child molester.<\/p>\n

The Trumpified prolife movement has become like a sleepwalker in a trailer being pulled down the freeway at 70 miles an hour.\u00a0 In the dream, he is walking toward the Great Rosy Land of Sunrise where abortion will somehow be magicked away forever just by saying so over and over.\u00a0 In the waking world where prudent adults live, he is opening the trailer door and stepping out into the rushing void.\u00a0 He will not survive.\u00a0 And the unborn he claimed to care about will be in\u00a0care of consistent life ethic Christians who do not use him as a human shield for a lying sex predator.<\/p>\n

Of course, not all members of the prolife movement have chosen to lie themselves into supporting, excusing, and defending Trump as Christianists do.\u00a0 Many (though still a tragic minority) actually behave like Christians and believe and do the gospel Jesus teaches.\u00a0 They refuse to tell lies.\u00a0 They protect human life from conception to natural death.\u00a0 And they treat the unborn\u2013and all the rest of the least of these\u2013as the objects of God\u2019s care and love, not as human shields behind which to advocate for war, torture, the death penalty, and battling the Church on everything from health care to a living wage for the poor.\u00a0 Because of this, as Christ was, they are hated and reviled by Christianists at propaganda organs like Liesite News<\/a>, which also hates and reviles their Chief Shepherd Francis<\/a>.\u00a0 But that is a small price to pay for following Jesus instead of the Christianist cult.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"