Sunday, July 18, 2021

Your God's to the Left, and I'm Sticking to the Right

  Charles Sykes's The Bulwark started out as being one of those sites meant to rally anti-Trump conservatives.   Although the Biden administration has made a mess of immigration and foreign policy,  The Bulwark has remained silent on these issues.   Are the people at The Bulwark anti-Trump conservatives,  or have they just become a CNN repeater station?
      While Trump-humpers have wrecked the GOP (see my anti-Trump posts going back to 2015), my issue with the Bulwark is that they attack Russ Douthat (hardly a Trump admirer) and pro-lifers,  but not the crop of dangerously totalitarian leftists like AOC and Ihlan Omar who are just as big of a threat to democracy as Trump. 
      On Facebook,  Estase warned other pro-lifers that it would take decades for the pro-life movement to shed Donald Trump's dirt.  One man told me that I was mentally ill.   Mentally ill or not,  Estase could never understand how anyone could see a bully who mocked the disabled as a genuine pro-lifer.  Both Pope Francis and Donald Trump are phony pro-lifers.   (The difference is that,  as an ally of radical environmentalists,  Pope Francis is actively working to promote abortion and euthanasia. )
      Is The Bulwark writer Jonathan Last so disgusted by pro-Trump Catholics that he has become a Cardinal Bernadin/ Gather Us In Catholic?   Although he claims to want to avoid painting with a broad brush,  his recent articles have habitually linked conservative Catholics and pro-lifers to Donald Trump.   Last week,  Last explicitly linked rad-trads with Trumpian authoritarianism.   That's not just painting with a broad brush,  that's using a paint sprayer!
      For his part,  Estase says a plague on both Trumpian head-coaching Republicans,  and their up-against-the-wall Che Guevara Democratic counterparts.   The latter includes Muslim-supremacist Ihlan Omar,  who hilariously calls pro-lifers dangerous fundamentalists . (Nothing says moderate secularism like a head scarf.)  It also includes Chuck Schumer,  who grinned like a ghoul while hearing a description of partial-birth abortion.