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Trump Brings Out the Worst in His Fans.

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Great takeaway line from over at RedState, from their great Susan Wright (who is NeverTrump and NeverClinton, just to be clear):

“While I would never endorse anything that came from a Clinton, I can say I’ve never heard her make reckless attacks about entire groups of people, or paint a picture of a broken, apocalyptic society and call it ‘America.'”

Amen, sister.

Note: Lurking in her statement, whether she means for it to be there or not, is a “lesser of two evils” argument. I will still maintain: One of these two awful candidates is going to be President. You can abstain or vote third party, as I wrote earlier today. I understand why people just can’t pull that lever for Hillary. But then you’re counting on other people to do the work for you. You’re aghast at Donald Trump? Well, then you’re stuck with Hillary Clinton.
So I say once again: Vote the split ticket for the good of your country, maintain the Hillary Hedge in Congress, and keep the disastrous GOP nominee out of the White House. That way we’ll all survive to fight another day.

“Trump’s Post-Apocalyptic Vision of America Brings Out the Worst in People”


Keep Your Eyes Open–and Vote for the Lesser Evil

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Always so, so great when an author you admire agrees with you! Takeaway line from this great article by Jennifer Rubin of the Right Turn Blog at the Washington Post:

“Sorry, Clinton haters, but Trump beats her hands down when it comes to unfitness. That doesn’t mean that one has to vote for her (for some it’s a bridge too far), but it does mean voting for him is unthinkable.”

I would strongly encourage you to read her whole article. We need steely-eyed realism, not wishful thinking, as we make this most important of decisions.

​“Trump’s Putin Problem Returns In a Big Way”


A Sad, Disappointing Evangelical Response to Trump.

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Oh MAN! How did I miss this great article from last month? I’ll have more along the same lines to post later today or tomorrow, but I don’t want to wear out my audience. Dear readers, if you have bought into the wishful thinking that’s going on out there about Trump, I would encourage you to read the following from the always-reliable conservative website RedState:

“Dr. James Dobson Is Supporting Trump for the Most Bizarre Reason Possible”


Why I Continue to Fear and Loathe the Idea of a Trump Presidency

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​Twenty years ago, when my son was a toddler, I was standing in the elevator with him. Have to say, he was just about the most adorable child you could possibly imagine. At one point, while he was still a baby, he did indeed look exactly like the Gerber baby. Curly blond hair, large blue eyes, etc. I would constantly be told by passersby, “What a cute little boy!”

So he and I were standing there, minding our own business, when the doors opened and a woman got in. I don’t remember much about her; my general impression was that she was attractive and possibly in her forties. Nothing too distinctive about her. 

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Making Peace in the Aftermath of the GOP Civil War.

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Excellent article from Ben Shapiro, a conservative writer who has paid a heavy price for his hewing to principle by 1) resigning from Breitbart and 2) refusing to endorse Trump. You can say that the moderates in the Civil War that this election has become fall into three camps:

1) those who are voting for Trump in order to stop Clinton,
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2) those who are voting for Clinton in order to stop Trump,
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3) those who are voting some kind of third party in protest against either candidate.

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Let’s Stop Shooting Ourselves in the Foot.

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“Your side handed us a gift with your candidate.”

This was from a nice woman I met during the intermission of a concert last week. She’d mentioned that she had spent part of her afternoon at the Democratic Party call center. I told her that I was a lifelong Republican who was voting for Hillary Clinton, we got into a discussion of the horrors of the Trump candidacy, and then she said the above. And she’s right, unfortunately. But the Trump candidacy is not a stand-alone event. It is, as has been pointed out frequently, simply the end result of a whole list of ills. If those who truly understand the appreciate the conservative point of view don’t vigorously oppose those ills, then we don’t deserve to win elections—and we won’t.

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Read This First . . . 

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. . . before you read the article below. I want to warn you that it is not an easy read. It describes (but does not of course include) vile, violent, and sexually explicit material, and you will find it to be very disturbing, indeed frightening. This is what is happening to people who speak out against the candidacy of Donald Trump. I am posting a second article from earlier in the summer that makes a connection between some of these attacks and the Trump campaign itself.

David French is an Iraq War veteran, an attorney, and a staff writer at the great conservative news outlet National Review. He is a highly-respected journalist, not a fear-mongerer. He is NeverHillary as well as NeverTrump. But because he dared to criticize the monstrosity that is the Republican nominee he has endured months of relentless online attacks with threats of actual physical violence. His family has been terrorized. 

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Another Blast from The Resurgent’s Trumpet

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Oh man! One of the good things to come out of this horrible election season is that I’ve become acquainted with a treasure trove of conservative/Christian websites. At some point I’m going to post an annotated list of the ones I’ve read the most.

Right at or near the top of the list has to be Erick Erickson’s The Resurgent. If you’ll remember back in August I wrote a post titled “Do Your Ears Itch?”  My point then was that we hear what we want to hear and so are easy targets for false teaching. Now Erickson comes along and give an example of a sound, biblical sermon being taken for a political endorsement. It’s really worse than being deceived by false teaching when you’re deceiving yourself!

Here’s the takeaway: “But Clinton does not right now have an army of Christians trying to find biblical authority to justify support for a moral cretin. Trump does.”

I can’t encourage you enough to read the whole thing. It’s not very long:

“Hearing What You Want to Hear”

Why Did Donald Trump Even Show Up for the Debate?

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​For heaven’s sake! I cannot believe that anyone would be so unbelievably clueless.  Why even bother if you’re going to shoot yourself in the foot so thoroughly?

I could go through several ridiculous statements made by the Republican nominee, but none of them comes even close to his refusal to say that he would accept the results of the election. What an absolute and complete farce!

These are the words of a demagogue. They are dangerous. Trump is trying, in advance, to discredit our entire electoral process.

Out of many, many articles out there this morning about the utterly disgraceful performance last night I give you, as I always like to do, the peerless Jonah Goldberg:

“Trump’s Best Debate So Far . . . and His Worst”

And yet more evidence that the cause of Christianity is being stained by the finger-twiddling of a large swathe of evangelicals:

“The Trump Effect? A Stunning Number of Evangelicals Will Now Accept Politicians’ ‘Immoral’ Acts”

Dear Trump Cheerleaders: Why Are You Doing This?

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Why are you setting back the cause of true conservatism for perhaps a decade and maybe for a generation?

Why are you excusing behavior that you have excoriated in Democrats?

Why are you causing a stain on the cause of Christianity by making it possible for the world to paint you as an utter and complete hypocrite?

I do not understand this. I can understand people holding their noses and saying, “I just can’t vote for Hillary.  I will burst into flames if I do that.” Or saying, “I’ll vote for a third-party candidate.” I don’t agree with people who say that, as anyone who reads this blog knows. I’ve made my own position abundantly clear. But I can sympathize, to a certain extent.

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