Last week, David French wrote that â??religious conservativesâ? who vote Trump will make themselves into â??the cheapest date in American politics.â? As if to prove Frenchâ??s point, my friend Wayne Grudem published an endorsement of Trump that bent over backwards to let him off easy for his polymorphous wickedness, and Michael Brendan Dougherty highlighted the embarrassing contrast between that endorsement and Grudem's attacks on Bill Clinton in 1998.
I wish I could be as optimistic as French about the future of social conservatism. He thinks that the choice of whether to become a cheap date is still before us. I wonder whether it hasn't already passed. That's one of the lessons of the fairy tales: The moment you become aware that you're making a moral choice with titanic consequences is the moment after youâ??ve made the choice and sealed your fate.
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