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This rings hollow unless it's accompanied by a recognition of, and repentance for, how we got here. Trump's defenders, like Mohler, defended, justified, and explained Trump till now but draw the line at rioting. Maybe the road that led to the riots needs reexamination. https://twitter.com/albertmohler/status/1346925742639226891
To put it another way, if you argue, as Mohler did, that Christians should vote for Trump with full knowledge of Trump's character and record, then you own the consequences. Pleading ignorance ("I didn't know he'd incite a riot") rings hollow because we warned this would happen
People who study politics and history for a living *knew what Trump was* from the beginning. He's a demagogue. We are not surprised by this and we warned you about it *years ago*. Trump has never shown much regard for the constitution, and today was only the latest proof.
General knowledge of history and society is an important part of developing prudential wisdom, wisdom that is essential if you're going to speak out and give advice about politics and society. You can't just say "worldview" and claim expertise
Theologians do not have special authority to speak out on political matters. The opposite is often true because they spend comparatively less time studying the data, the minutiae, the historical precedents that help us understand how human societies work.
Some who defend Trump don't pay attention to those things. They invoke vast, abstract ideas-that Trump will stop CRT and cultural Marxism and intersectionality or something, while ignoring the real, specific, concrete harms he is doing to our body politic
The defense of Trump boils down to a wager that conservative judges are worth the risk of whatever damage Trump might do in any and every other field of public policy. That was always a shocking wager because of what we knew about Trump from the beginning.
Now the question is, are you willing to bet the Constitution on that wager? The peaceful transfer of power? The continuity of government? Because that is what is at stake, which is what I have been trying to say for years.
Trump is an anti-democratic nationalist demagogue who threatens the American experiment in free government. Do you get it yet? Do you think there is anything defensible here? Do you recognize the path we traveled to get to this point?
Because if not, we'll travel it again.
Because if not, we'll travel it again.
