Comments from readers provide opportunities to further expand on a point. Brevity can lead to leaving some terms obscure – the “reprehensible ideas” for instance in a previous post. In the following exchange, I gave some sense about what I might mean by “reprehensible ideas”.
Respondent: Right now, the most important thing is character and decency. Period. No Faustian bargains with the likes of DT.
My reply: You make much of “character” but say nothing of character-destroying policies. Unleashing an unaccountable administrative state sets the stage for unaccountable government and irresponsible conduct. Class warfare policies puts the power of government agencies into the incitement of envy and envy-based confiscation. Modern progressivism’s lifestyle fascism is the single largest organized threat to faith institutions. Trump’s episodic insults to particular persons creates a much smaller universe of victims than the state’s massive and broad social destruction. Don’t be so animated about Trump’s boorish behavior while refusing to recognize the much more serious assault on our national health from lefty policies. That’s the “reprehensible ideas” part of our current dilemma.
And so it goes.
RogerG