- Deficit spending: If you weren’t convinced by Dick Cheney explicitly saying out loud and on the record that “Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter,” if you weren’t convinced by George W. Bush putting two wars on the national credit card, then surely adding more than $1.5 trillion to the debt to cut taxes for the rich has removed any remaining doubt.
- National security: giving intelligence secrets to the Russians? No problem. Outing an undercover CIA agent? No problem. Overwhelming evidence of Russian interference in American elections? No problem.
- Crime: No fewer than four Republicans with criminal convictions are running for office this year, and that’s not counting Roy Moore, the sexual predator who got more than 90% of Republican votes in a special election for U.S. Senate, and the full-throated support of the President and the silent assent of Iowa Senator Joni Ernst.
- What Jesus would do: White evangelicals simply no longer care about the personal morality of their political leaders. Not my opinion, it’s what evangelicals say for themselves.
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