Rush: Trump’s Message Will Resonate

They’re all calling me rich. I’m really rich — I’ll show you here in a minute — and I’m proud of it.” No. Romney will go buy a station wagon, put the dog on the roof, and go on vacation.  Trump’s out there flying his Boeing 757 with his name on it in 14-karat gold on the fuselage. He’s out bragging about everything he’s done because he’s proud of it.

He’s proud of his success, he’s proud of his achievements, and he wants people to know.  He says he’s not bragging ’cause he doesn’t have to brag.  He’s not ashamed of any of it and he doesn’t want to put on any airs and act like it was an accident or act like he doesn’t deserve it, because he does deserve it.

.. That’s the reaction a lot of people are gonna have because that’s the way they’ve been raised. “It’s unfair to beat anybody.  It’s unfair.  Competition is not necessary.  Conflict resolution, that’s what we need. We need to compromise, get along, be bipartisan.”  It’s gonna scare a lot of people.  Beating the Chinese, beating the Japanese.  These are people that are ignorant, who have no idea that what Trump says here is actually true.  Make no mistake.

.. You don’t think the ChiComs consider us an enemy?  They sure as heck do.  You don’t think Putin considers us as an enemy?  He sure as heck does.  We’re an enemy simply because we’re the lone superpower anymore.  It’s how you deal with that, that distinguishes you.

.. And plus he’s got the best of the best working for him.  He’s got a brain trust that would rival any university and he’s got people that know how to get the job done.  These are goal oriented people that work for him.  And believe me, his ego is so big that he wants to just stand up there and say, “I told you so.  I’ve been telling you for years.”

Donald Trump’s Christian Soldiers

despite his supporters’ secular tilt, 38 percent still described themselves as weekly churchgoers.

.. Trump is heightening conservative religion’s internal contradictions and fracturing it along pre-existing fault lines.

.. Trump is losing the most active believers, but he’s winning in what I’ve previously termed the “Christian penumbra” — the areas of American society (parts of the South very much included) where active religiosity has weakened, but a Christian-ish residue remains.

.. his occasional nods to religious faith — like, say, his promise to make store clerks say “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays” — are well tailored for voters for whom Christian identity is still a talisman even when an active faith is all but gone.

.. Evangelicals have for decades believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they’ve woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction. They worry that coaches getting fired over praying at schools, fire chiefs getting fired for citing Scripture, bakers getting bankrupted over their refusal to bake a cake — their entire perspective on Christian faith as a key element of what made America great has been swept away.

.. If this is really a post-Christian society, they seem to be thinking, then Christians need to make sure the meanest, toughest heathen on the block is on their side. So it makes sense to join an alliance of convenience with a strongman, placing themselves under his benevolent protection, because their own leaders have delivered them only to defeat.

.. And the lure of the strongman is particularly powerful for those believers whose theology was somewhat Trumpian already — nationalistic, prosperity-worshiping, by turns apocalyptic and success-obsessed.

.. In the light of Trumpism, many hard truths about American Christianity — its divisions, its failures, its follies, its heresies — stand ruthlessly exposed.

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.. Darwin’s work was in the mid-1800s in England. It was actually his half-cousin Francis Galton who was the founder of eugenics. He was playing with the idea that Darwin had uncovered that nature was sorting people and leading to survival of the fittest. Galton thought that if we could do what nature was doing, we could do it more methodically and in a more kind way. That started in England and then came over the America in the early 1900s.