{"id":96551,"date":"2016-08-03T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=96551"},"modified":"2016-08-03T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T16:58:51","slug":"noah-millman-on-the-incoherence-of-the-religious-conservative-case-for-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/08\/noah-millman-on-the-incoherence-of-the-religious-conservative-case-for-donald-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"Noah Millman on the Incoherence of the Religious Conservative Case for Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

over at the American Conservative<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

After all, Donald Trump\u2019s primary victory is the final proof that even the religiously\u00a0conservative base of the GOP doesn\u2019t really care about things like abortion and gay rights, because Trump manifestly didn\u2019t care about these questions or was actively on the other side from religious\u00a0conservatives, and yet he won plenty of evangelical Christian votes in the primaries. So voting for Trump out of religious\u00a0conservative conviction sends a clear-as-day message that Republicans need do\u00a0absolutely nothing<\/em>\u00a0on those issues in order to win religious\u00a0conservative votes. It is a statement of abject surrender.<\/p>\n

Look: there is nobody running in this election in whom religious\u00a0conservatives should put the slightest sliver of hope with regard to their issues. If you really care overwhelmingly about those issues, you have a practical obligation not to vote for President.\u00a0Large scale abstentions by religious conservatives would make it abundantly clear that attention must be paid to their concerns, in a way that voting for Trump never could do.<\/p>\n

Or, if issues like abortion are just one of a complex of issues that have to be weighed in any election, then vote for the person who you think is best on balance, and fight for those other issues on another front. Maybe that means voting for Trump \u2014 in which case you\u2019ll still<\/em> need to be doing that fighting on other fronts, because trust me, Trump is\u00a0not<\/em> going to have your back.\u00a0Regardless,\u00a0don\u2019t kid yourself that\u00a0a vote for Trump will advance the cause of religious conservatism one iota. You know full well it won\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

over at the American Conservative: After all, Donald Trump\u2019s primary victory is the final proof that even the religiously\u00a0conservative base of the GOP doesn\u2019t really care about things like abortion and gay rights, because Trump manifestly didn\u2019t care about these questions or was actively on the other side from religious\u00a0conservatives, and yet he won plenty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[775],"class_list":["post-96551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-never-trump"],"yoast_head":"\nNoah Millman on the Incoherence of the Religious Conservative Case for Donald Trump<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"over at the American Conservative: After all, Donald Trump\u2019s primary victory is the final proof that even the 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