Then you weren’t paying attention when it mattered.
Doesn’t anyone remember how vile and vulgar Donald Trump was in the primary debates? Doesn’t anyone remember how parents were wondering if it was okay to let their children watch them? Doesn’t anyone remember the t-shirts with the f-word plastered all over them being sold right outside Trump rallies?
And yet people went along with it, even good conservative Christian folks. I remember having a conversation with two friends whom I like and respect very much and being told by them that Trump was “refreshing.” I was so taken aback that I managed only to sputter out, “I don’t find bigotry to be refreshing.”
I am reminded of an interview on TV of a woman supporting Trump. She said, “I just think we need to shake things up in Washington, and Donald Trump will do that.” Which would be fine if it weren’t for one fact:
America is not a milkshake.
So to start out today I want to post two articles from back In March, one detailing in excruciating detail how “evangelicals” (I refuse to use that word without quotation marks) bought into Trump’s Norman Vincent Peale theology and one (by John Kasich, no less) expressing deep concerns about Trump’s vulgarity. The point of including these months-old pieces is to show that there is no excuse for the excuses being made for Trump. It was clear from the outset what he was. To be honest, I actually wish that those infamous tapes hadn’t surfaced, because 1) they have injected yet more coarseness into our national conversation, and 2) there will always be those who will say that he could have won if those nasty mainstream-media people hadn’t released them. No, he wouldn’t have won. He was never going to win. Okay, that’s enough italics for one day.
“The Theology of Donald Trump”
“John Kasich ‘Very Concerned” about Trump’s Comments about Women”