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#MAGA Mottramism
Back in 2002 or so, Canadian Catholic writer Mark Cameron came up with the term “Mottramism” to describe all-in Catholics like the writer Mark Shea, who fell all over themselves to absolve John Paul II...
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The Evangelical Rot Deepens
Paula White-Cain, telling viewers of the Jim Bakker program that if they give money to him, they’re storing up treasures in heaven I’m wound up today, with the news out from Pew showing, among other...
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The Shifting Ground In Washington
MSNBC screenshot This morning I was listening to a discussion on the radio, in which DC journalists were marveling that Trump, when he is in trouble, has a habit of doubling down on politically...
View ArticleTaylor’s Damning Testimony
I don’t see how Trump avoids impeachment now: The top American diplomat in Ukraine on Tuesday gave impeachment investigators a vivid and impassioned account of how multiple senior administration...
View ArticleFrat Boy Thermopylae
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz compared the House Republicans storming the Intelligence Committee today to the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae. Well, that’s one way to look at it. I think the optics were...
View ArticleThe Kingdom Of The Petty Tyrant
A quick note to let you all know that I am unable to write much here, because I can’t connect to the Internet from my hosts’ home. I am in the cafe at the Hermitage Museum, checking email and approving...
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Trump Loses Louisiana
Looks like big turnout in the cities pushed Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards to re-election over Republican Eddie Rispone, despite the fact that Donald Trump visited the state three times to campaign...
View ArticleProgressives Who Make Trump Voters
A reader writes: Posie Parker is a feminist who is gradually being unpersoned by the left. Her crime is that she doesn’t believe trans women are women. She was taken off Facebook, and a recent...
View ArticleTrump’s Progressive Allies
Turns out that the President of the United States is afraid to work in the Oval Office, partly out of fear that his own people will betray him: Maintaining a sanctuary to work and think has taken on...
View ArticleConservatives At The Maginot Line
Ezra Klein has an interesting piece up about what he rightly calls “the post-Christian culture wars.” Here’s how it begins: Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. They...
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