re: #15 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Buttigieg says ‘reckoning’ coming over GOP and Christianity

I rather like Pete, though I don’t agree with him about everything. In particular, I think he wastes energy trying to win over Trumpites, where I have just written them off to concentrate on unity, and getting out the vote. Even so, I think he could actually beat Trump and by a pretty good margin. Such an election would become a national referendum on homophobia, since the GOP has monopolized the bigot vote and will not be able to restrain themselves from attacking him on that basis. Indeed, it might turn into a referendum on evangelical power in general.

This actually wouldn’t be the first time this has happened. The election of 1800 between Adams and Jefferson had a number of religious types chiming in on Adams’ side. The things said about Jefferson by the Federalist-leaning pastors would sound familiar to our ears today. In Jefferson’s case, they harped on him being a deist.

The Evangelicals need to be absolutely crushed in an election, just crushed. It can’t be half measures.