Links for 05/03/16 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Andrew Sullivan hits a home run. Both Plato and the Cultural Theory of Douglas and Wildavsky show that when egalitarianism or populism run amok, (including the libertarianism of gay rights), that a strong leader will arise. People are flocking to Trump out of a desire for a strong authority to make things better. Sadly, the kind of leader that is attracted is no elitist wonk but a thumb fingered authoritarian with big lies and easy answers. Andrew predicts what everyone is talking about, Republicans for Clinton.
Cruz was hoping for a religious revival in Indiana. He got boilermakers for an authoritarian Trump. The white evangelicals, some of whom are more white than Christian, also voted for the Donald.
I suspect the God gap is bigger than we think because men lie about ditching Church and the women are voting for Hillary. Sadly, Catholics are going for Trump because of his authoritarianism. It certainly is not because he supports Catholic doctrine. That would be Sanders, the secular Jew.
I would hope that every worker who wants to stick it to the boss will see Trump in that role and vote Democratic. Of course, as Andrew Sullivan would no doubt agree, Hillary is not exactly free of the taint of capitalist authoritarianism either. That's the argument Sanders will make with the Superdelegates (who sadly like that Capitalist money quite a bit).
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