Links for 03/03/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I disagree with Silk (it's rare, I know) on the death of the religious right. Trump is attracting the authoritarians - which have always been the core of the relgious fright, from the pews to the pulpit to the ambo (Chaput has not quit talking on issues, although he seems smart enough not to mention Trump). It is the death of Scalia which ends the abortion issue as we now know it - and Kennedy ended the anti-marriage movement in law - and will lead to its demise in churches, but authoritarianism itself will live on.
I would call Rubio the anti-Quayle. He was attempting to paint Trump as a bad speller and it blew up in his face.
The Kochs are following a family tradition of funding and egging on authoritarians, but those of that ilk have been around even without funding. Of course, nowadays their support of these types gives authoritarians a louder microphone and makes it more likely that their idiocy is obvious to everyone but them. This will especially be the case if Sanders wins the nomination and they start funding the red-baiters.
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