It’s ok to bash Christians if you are a liberal media hack like the Washington Post’s Michael Gerson. You see, if you are an evangelical Christian and you supported/support POTUS Trump, you are nothing more than a ‘slimy political operative’. Imagine someone saying that if a Jew or Muslim that supported Obama they were “slimy” this country’s media would be in total meltdown and Democrats in congress would be calling racism. So it goes with liberal hacks like basically everyone at the Washington Post and especially Michael Gerson.
| Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson says evangelicals that support Trump are ‘slimy’ |
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BRENNAN: Michael, I want to ask you. You just wrote an in-depth piece about sort of the struggle within — as you see it, the search for the soul of the evangelical movement in many ways. You say they have lost their interest in decency. What do you think the evangelicals who support President Trump make of the Stormy Daniels scandal?
GERSON: Well, I think that it is the height of hypocrisy. And we saw it with Roy Moore as well.
If any other Democratic president had been guilty of what is alleged in these cases, evangelicals would be, you know, off the reservation.
This is a case where their morality seems to be determined by their politics. And they have ceased to be moral leaders in that sense. It’s — it was a tough choice for many evangelicals between Hillary Clinton and the president. And I understand that.
But they have been the most sycophantic element of the Republican coalition, which was — is unnecessary. They have not provided that moral judgment that I think leavens our politics or should leaven our politics.
And so I have done this piece in “The Atlantic” essentially arguing that they have — they are betraying a great tradition. Evangelicalism really has had a good tradition. And now they are really undermining that reputation of their faith.
BRENNAN: But, in that judgment, you are saying the transactional part of this relationship isn’t worth the trade-off?
GERSON: Well, they are acting like, you know, slimy political operatives, not moral leaders.
In other words, if you are an evangelical, you are all Roy Moore or something.