re: #40 Mike Lamb

In what universe is Trump not part of the exact “elite” that Dreher is bemoaning?

Dreher has had a hard-on for years regarding the Washington/New York “intellectual elites” that he had to work with in the news business. Rod is from small town Louisiana and he wears that on his sleeve (and writes books about it) on how his small town religious values are better than any thing in those high-falutin’ cities.

So he regards Trump as a vulgar part of those big city values while also a catalyst for rural religious conservative populism.

Dreher likes just about everything Trump stands for. He just wants a small town aw-shucks Huckabee character to deliver the product.