{"id":97585,"date":"2016-10-08T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T00:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=97585"},"modified":"2016-10-08T18:19:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T01:19:53","slug":"rod-dreher-on-the-trump-undertow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/10\/rod-dreher-on-the-trump-undertow.html","title":{"rendered":"Rod Dreher on the Trump Undertow"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/religious-right-implosion\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sucking the Religious Right down:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/rosiegray\/prominent-evangelicals-still-backing-trump-after-graphic-vid?utm_term=.guB2aW5kY#.mhmZ59rWl\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Some of the Evangelical Old Guard is still standing behind the crotch-grabbing molester.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Bill Bennett, a Catholic social conservative stalwart, is not among them \u2014 but he\u2019s stepping back for prudential reasons, not moral ones:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WILLIAM J. BENNETT, a Trump ally, to WaPo: Trump \u201cshould step down\u2026 It\u2019s a shame, a crying shame, but he can\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Costa (@costareports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/costareports\/status\/784838531797618688\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Not \u201cbecause he is a moral disgrace,\u201d but \u201cbecause he can\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When stuff like this happens, apologists for the Party of Personal Responsibility demand to be graded on curve. We don\u2019t hear \u201cHow is it that we, we ourselves and nobody else, got ourselves into the mess by nominating and fanatically supporting a sexual predator we have always known was a misogynous pornocrat?\u201d Nope, instead we hear about how the Liberal Media is at fault for corrupting society and morals. Or it\u2019s Hillary\u2019s fault because feminists make men act this way in reaction to them. Or it\u2019s the fault of the people who \u201cdistract\u201d us from the Real Issues, such as the fact Bill Clinton Did It Too.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, here\u2019s the thing, Trumpkins: You and you alone did this to yourselves. Nobody made you do it. Lots of people struggled to keep you from doing it. But you were too smart for them and you did it anyway. And now it is you and nobody else who is defending a sex predator\u2013for Jesus\u2013and imagining that people will turn against the Faith because Hillary Clinton will command it from her Dark Throne in Barad-dur.<\/p>\n<p>No. People are being repelled from the Faith by you and your sick-making defenses of a sex predator. You are doing more damage to the Church than an external enemy could ever dream of doing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026that is sucking the Religious Right down: Some of the Evangelical Old Guard is still standing behind the crotch-grabbing molester.\u00a0\u00a0Bill Bennett, a Catholic social conservative stalwart, is not among them \u2014 but he\u2019s stepping back for prudential reasons, not moral ones: WILLIAM J. BENNETT, a Trump ally, to WaPo: Trump \u201cshould step down\u2026 It\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/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-97585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-never-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rod Dreher on the Trump Undertow<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"...that is sucking the Religious Right down: Some of the Evangelical Old Guard is still standing behind the crotch-grabbing molester.\u00a0\u00a0Bill Bennett, a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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