Quidnuncs of Note

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.