Links for 03/29/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: I don't necessarily mind references to the mythical Adam and Eve (humankind is much more ancient), as long as they are regarded as symbolic and not historical. It is hard enough to argue with some that Jesus really did exist without homilies having him interact with characters who did not. That being said, the triumph of the resurrection is for us, not for God. God knows that death his beneath him. By rising, God makes death beneath us.
It is good that young people, including Republicans, are giving up on xenophobia. Perhaps there is hope for a compromise yet, but not the compromise passed by the Senate previously, which is a slave bill. We need to start from scratch and be a lot less punitive.
The reason immigration is important to Trump's evangelical white voters is because they are authoritarian. They want a strong figure to sort it out and they hate that undocumented immigrants have broken the law to come here - even though the law is only a misdemeanor (no more that Trump's aid grabbing a member of the press) as well as the law being an ass.
I doubt people are following Rush onto the Trump bandwagon. Its more likely that Rush is giving in to an opportunistic impulse and is following his audience to Trump - although Rush is as much an authoritarian as Trump is. Rush is not a conservative the way political science describes conservatives. He is a reactionary force. Maybe loss in November will purge the reactionary impulse from the GOP - but I doubt it. Clinton is the Conservative in the race, using classical definitions - only Sanders is liberal - not even very radical. When I ran, I was radical. Bravo to Gerson for equating Trump with Palin's anti-intellectualism
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