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Dear Party of Personal Responsibility: \u00a0The reason you are losing America is because you and the Right Wing Noise Machine spent years breeding and catechizing a base of racist dolts who respond to Panics du Jour like sheep and who live in a bubble of unreality. \u00a0 Now 80% of them are \u201ctotally fine\u201d with Trump\u2019s blatant racism.<\/a><\/p>\n

But, here\u2019s the thing: 80% of Americans<\/em> are not totally fine with blatant racism. \u00a0That\u2019s why Trump has a 70% unfavorability rating<\/a> and, God willing, will bring the Party of Personal Responsibility to its knees when the American people\u00a0rain down complete destruction on it and all its pomps and works this fall.<\/p>\n

If conservatives (including conservative Christians) are smart, they will repudiate this albatross right now. \u00a0But the magic of the Trumpkin mind is that all appeals to fact and reality are repudiated as \u201cmedia lies\u201d. \u00a0So my money is on the Party of Personal Responsibility hunkering down and only encountering reality in the form of an electoral Hiroshima blast they never saw coming. \u00a0God willing, it will result in a coup by sane conservatives who will, at long last, find the gut to exile from their midst forever the racist, lunatics, conspiracy theorists, and enemies of the common good who are currently running the show. \u00a0Real patriots who actually want something good for America. \u00a0Good guys.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see. \u00a0Meanwhile, I wait to hear the sound of \u201cmea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa\u201d from *somebody* in the Party of Personal Responsibility, at long last acknowledging that they and they alone are responsible for the rise of Donald Trump and that they and they alone catechized the base of racist morons who crowned him and said, \u201cWe have no King but Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Any Catholic who cares about preserving the witness of \u201cfaithful conservative Catholics\u201d to the world has a solemn moral obligation to resist and oppose this man. \u00a0If we throw in our lot with him, he will wreck our witness and our credibility as surely as the sun rises.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"