Feigning Moral Outrage, Republican Style

THE DEMOCRATS are in real trouble, because the Republicans are hoppin' mad, mad enough to cone out to vote in droves, and to express their anger at the Dems by voting Republican, which, as the president keeps reminding us, is in effect a vote for him. With this assertion I could scarcely agree more. To vote for any Republicans, to even be a Republican these days, is a vote for Donald J. Trump, and all that goes with him. the republicans have hitched their wagon to Donald J. Trump, and all that goes with him, which, when one thinks about it, is a lot. A lot of twisted, reprehensible words and deeds. Trump keeps reminding his base how horribly the Democrats treated Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and how mad they should be about it. Trump's followers, in usual lockstep, seem to wholeheartedly agree, particularly the evangelical Christian Trump supporters, who are especially outraged by the treatment of a man who has not been proven, only suspected, of being a serial sexual molester. Trump the multi billionaire who has done, and continues to do everything in his power to avoid rendering unto Caesar, who has married and fathered children by three women and has had affairs, according to him, with dozens more. Trump, the political leader of the evangelical Christian community, tells monstrous lies constantly, and who viciously attacks his critics, the darling of the evangelical Christian community, who hardly seem qualified to judge whether anyone else is acting like an immoral mob. These horrible women had the audacity to claim that Kavanaugh had sexually molested them. The Democrat Senators had the audacity to ask the women about it, and opponents to Kavanaugh's nomination had the audacity to carry signs and assemble and shout anti-Kavanaugh comments. God, what a mob. A mob of people vociferously opposing a man accused multiple times of sexual misconduct. To try to gin up phony moral outrage to get people to vote is rather clever, diabolically clever enough for Trump supporters to be inspired by it. Such people obviously care nothing for the truth, otherwise they wouldn't support Trump. They, including and particularly the evangelical Christians, have sold their souls to the devil and revealed their moral bankruptcy. Their charade of being righteously outraged by the imagined indignities heaped upon a man whose moral character is evidently as low as their own but whom they nonetheless support is a clever ploy, but not clever enough.