The American Postliberal has completely delegitimized itself by platforming this drivel. Facts and the rule of law actually do matter if you're a faithful Catholic. No cult leader is above either, however deficient his political opponents may be.
American Postliberals have characterized themselves as Catholic political realists— meaning power trumps all—we must have the power first to be able to affect change. So to hell with morals, character, and God’s love: sell your soul to the devil—whatever it takes.
I knew when this group officially endorsed Trump, it was headed south, and like him, the bottom still seems to be a good way down.
Finally: after three and a half years, someone has been swept away by his own excursion into a thought experiment riven with pretzel logic to demonstrate what hundreds of lawyers and countless pundits, advisors, judges, fellow Republicans in state houses and the U S Congress could not: how to overturn the results of a free and fair election and how to steal the votes from the citizens who voted for Biden, all the while maintaining his composure in advancing this balderdash as legitimate.
I don’t understand how the MAGA cult became an approved sect of the Catholic Church. Or did the MAGA cult just expropriate a place for itself in the church, much like evangelical Protestants? I really doubt Pope Francis approves…
Center-left economic policies consistently poll well with the public, even among Republicans. Legal immigration polls well with the public. Abortion and gay marriage poll well with the public. The 08 recession discredited "free-market" rhetoric, and, for good or ill, the country steadily moves in a more secular, atomistic direction culturally. The electorate clearly leans towards the Democrats, and this gives them a big advantage in elections. Its not rocket science. The only way to get a Republican president is to hope there is a weak economy under a Democratic incumbent, and then barely squeeze out enough votes in the right swing states to get to 270 electoral votes. Winning the national popular vote is a pipe dream (its only happened once after 1988, in 2004). In 2016, Trump would have lost to Sanders or Biden or Obama, he got extremely lucky by facing a uniquely hated politician in Clinton. Clinton still might have beat a less charismatic or more conservative Republican, like Bush or Cruz.
You can't win with a Koch-funded free marketer, you can't win with a Christian culture warrior, you can't win with a Stephen Miller type nativist/race baiter--they are all toxic to the average voter in ways movement activists fail to see because they live in an online echo chamber. Yet if you run Charlie Baker, the base doesn't turn out. This is the core problem, not Democrats "stealing" elections.
This is unadulterated trash.
The American Postliberal has completely delegitimized itself by platforming this drivel. Facts and the rule of law actually do matter if you're a faithful Catholic. No cult leader is above either, however deficient his political opponents may be.
American Postliberals have characterized themselves as Catholic political realists— meaning power trumps all—we must have the power first to be able to affect change. So to hell with morals, character, and God’s love: sell your soul to the devil—whatever it takes.
I knew when this group officially endorsed Trump, it was headed south, and like him, the bottom still seems to be a good way down.
Finally: after three and a half years, someone has been swept away by his own excursion into a thought experiment riven with pretzel logic to demonstrate what hundreds of lawyers and countless pundits, advisors, judges, fellow Republicans in state houses and the U S Congress could not: how to overturn the results of a free and fair election and how to steal the votes from the citizens who voted for Biden, all the while maintaining his composure in advancing this balderdash as legitimate.
I don’t understand how the MAGA cult became an approved sect of the Catholic Church. Or did the MAGA cult just expropriate a place for itself in the church, much like evangelical Protestants? I really doubt Pope Francis approves…
OK zoomer
You might appreciate this podcast on delegated authority:
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/bhyLTUcjiKb
Center-left economic policies consistently poll well with the public, even among Republicans. Legal immigration polls well with the public. Abortion and gay marriage poll well with the public. The 08 recession discredited "free-market" rhetoric, and, for good or ill, the country steadily moves in a more secular, atomistic direction culturally. The electorate clearly leans towards the Democrats, and this gives them a big advantage in elections. Its not rocket science. The only way to get a Republican president is to hope there is a weak economy under a Democratic incumbent, and then barely squeeze out enough votes in the right swing states to get to 270 electoral votes. Winning the national popular vote is a pipe dream (its only happened once after 1988, in 2004). In 2016, Trump would have lost to Sanders or Biden or Obama, he got extremely lucky by facing a uniquely hated politician in Clinton. Clinton still might have beat a less charismatic or more conservative Republican, like Bush or Cruz.
You can't win with a Koch-funded free marketer, you can't win with a Christian culture warrior, you can't win with a Stephen Miller type nativist/race baiter--they are all toxic to the average voter in ways movement activists fail to see because they live in an online echo chamber. Yet if you run Charlie Baker, the base doesn't turn out. This is the core problem, not Democrats "stealing" elections.
The polls are fraudulent.