The ivory tower must be filled with carbon monoxide. There is a mass hysteria akin to mass suicide for their holding of crosses and denouncing Trump as Lucifer incarnate.
The #neverTrump faithful have fallen prey to their own brand of sanctimony. The old boy high priests will never allow their privileged shell to be cracked, no matter how weak its encasement. m/r
Meet the Rt. Rev. Charles Murray and the holy Establishmentarians.
May 27, 2016 by Esther Goldberg
In a
remarkable essay, Charles Murray adumbrates the tenets of a new religion which might be called the
Church of Conservatism. The theology could be fleshed out a bit, but for now here is what we may infer from what Mr. Murray tells us.
The new church has a high priesthood, whom Mr. Murray label
Establishmentarians.
Its members are a select group, “the tiny fraction of the population
that deals professionally in public policy from the right.” Only they
are permitted to enter the inner sanctum of the Church, the Holy of
Holies, wherein is kept the Book of the True Conservative, which
contains the principles of the new religion. The priesthood is given the
keys to the kingdom, the right to say who is and who is not a
conservative, the right to sanctify and the power to anathemize.
A fundamental dogma of the Church is that Donald Trump is
evil.
Not that his views are all bad. Some might in fact be socially
beneficial. No, Trump is evil in his essence, like Satan, if you will.
And he must be denounced as such by all Establishmentarians, and his
influence exorcised wherever it might be found amongst the erring
members of the Church
.
Many of the Church’s
priests are “columnists, media pundits,
public intellectuals and politicians” whose role is to preach about the
application of the principles of True Conservatism to public policy and
good government. The authentic Priests have already identified
themselves publicly as
#NeverTrump, meaning that there is no way in Hell that they will ever cast a vote for Trump.
There is no hatred like an
odium theologicum, said John Stuart Mill, and Murray reserves all his powers of vituperation for the heretical followers of Mr. Trump.
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