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Number One super guy.

 

It might be the single biggest thing to damage the overall Christian witness in America.

We may be talking about different things here. You got a beef with Christians that you wanna work out, hell, I'd probably agree with a lot of the critique. But on the matter of whether theocratic fascism is happening? It ain't. And in a decade's time, after Christian leaders who stood behind Trump have been discarded and lost all useful reputation in culture, you'll see what I mean. Christians are absolutely going to lose control. In many places - schools - they already have.

And it will not, for the sake of a good Christian witness, be the worst thing, losing control. But we'll have to contend with a government increasingly hostile to Christian aims. I'm certainly not feeling sorry for myself.

 

If we're gonna talk about trends, let's talk about Trumpist/SEC state legislatures for a moment.
Would you say most of the laws recently passed at the state level promote abortion rights or government restrictions on abortion? How's that one trending? It's clearly the issue about which Trumpist/SEC Pseudo Christians care most fervently.
In which direction is climate change policy headed?
How about immigrants, for whom Jesus appears to advocate but whom Trumpist Pseudo Christians hate? Is this country likely to admit more immigrants or fewer immigrants in the next couple of years?
What of gun control? Has anything been done since Sandy Hook? Has the fedruhl government taken their blessed guns, to which they hold more dearly than any doctrine of peace? Any serious reform under discussion when Congress gets back from its extended vacation?
Let me know how those things are going.

 

Trump resists aides’ pressure to back Hong Kong protesters

 

How they're going? Or where they're gonna be in 5-10 years? One day, I think you're gonna get so much of what you want at the national level - dunno about climate change - that you'll have to look for a reason to be miserable.

On the state legislatures, you can blame Democrats. Really. They consistently saw less value in smaller offices that shape policy at the state level, consistently got outspent, consistently failed to find good candidates, consistently lost as a result. And then, of course, a lot of the Democrats that would run were either people you couldn't take all that seriously or too-far left candidates. But that shifted significantly in 2018 and will continue to do so in 2020. Trump is so toxic that he inspired more good candidates to run. Especially women.

 

This is true. The GOP was visionary in the way it targeted state legislatures.

 

Well, that and further-left Democrats tend to care way more about national politics than they do shaping local narratives. That's why so many are clustered in a few spots; they want to be around people who think like they do and will do so at some financial cost.

 

Is this an example of shifting the Overton Window?

 

Beer me!

 

Point: Christianity is losing sway over America!

Counterpoint:

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/1...gious-neutrality-failed/#.XVLJnbiqnx0.twitter