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| James Dobson |
Whether they like it or not, the religious right has to deal with the fact that Donald Trump lost the recent presidential election and come January will no longer be president. This means they are going to lose all of their access to the White House and the ability to meddle in and muck up policy issues.
While some are spinning portents of doom and despair, others are handling it with a heavy heart such as former Focus on the Family head James Dobson:
There is a heaviness within my spirit today on behalf of our beloved nation. I’m sure I share that sentiment with many of you. In a sense, Shirley and I are also grieving over the potential passing of an era, during which I believe God gave America a spiritual reprieve. President Donald Trump was partially responsible for this crucial change of trajectory.
Dobson neglects to say exactly why God chose Trump to be the vessel of a spiritual reprieve for America. I guess he was too busy attempting to paint Trump as a hardworking Christian man besieged by people attempting to destroy him at every turn.
People who know the President best tell us he is one of the most hard-working and dedicated men ever to serve in the Oval Office. We saw that indefatigable nature during his final campaign, when he once held nine rallies in two days. He is also remarkably resilient. The media and his political opponents hammered him every day for four years. There was never a respite. President Trump arose every morning knowing he would be unfairly ridiculed and attacked from morning to night. . . . Yes, I admire Donald Trump. He is sometimes brash and aggressive. But as a New York entrepreneur and as a president under siege, he has had to be tough to deal with his challenges. But there is no doubt that he loves America and its people. Speaking personally, I will miss his presence on the national stage when he is no longer our President.
For someone who opposes gay marriage, Dobson seem to be making a strong case why he will divorce his wife and marry Trump. But all wasn't pandering and praise in Dobson's piece. He devoted a little bit of his column to smearing President-Elect Joe Biden by claiming that he will push children into having transgender surgery.
Biden’s regime will also usher in other forms of moral depravity. For example, he recently suggested that kids as young as eight or ten years old should be able to undergo irreversible transexual transformation. That’s what the man said!
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Dobson is lying. Biden said no such thing. According to the Associated Press, this is a distortion of a comment Biden made during an October town hall meeting:
Social media users are altering comments made by Biden during an Oct. 15 town hall to falsely suggest he supports sex changing medical procedures for young children. Biden said transgender children should not experience discrimination, but he did not say they “have a right to transition.”
Now a part of me wants to tweet Dobson saying "See! That's why y'all lost." However Dobson's attempt to imply that Biden wants to harm children speaks for itself. No matter how Dobson and company attempt to reconstruct reality, the truth is that Trump was an incompetent boob and a braggart who was in over his head. The religious right gave him support so he opened the White House door and allowed them to make themselves at home. They didn't provide religious counsel nor were they the voice of reason. They simply held out their grubby hands and kept their mouths shut, except for to excuse almost every last one of Trump's excesses. From his basic lying, to his awful attacks on immigrants, to his piss poor COVID response, the religious right were always there with the assist in Trump's attempt to gaslight the nation.
On election day, America showed Trump that we weren't falling for it. I hope the country spends a considerable time during the Biden era showing Dobson and the rest of the religious right that they didn't fool us either.
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