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Trump 1st President to Speak Live to ‘March for Life’
Well, Trump did it. Good for him. I think, Trump supporters and Trump critics on the right, can all agree this is a great thing to happen today.
God Bless the people in this fight for life, God Bless Trump for attending, and God Bless America.
Published in General
The press will have to cover it now.
But David French tells me that the Evangelicals and Christians have no good reason to support the President and lessen their movement if they don’t hate Trump.
This is why Trump has high Republican support. As President Reagan did not like abortion. Bush the Younger was a very religious guy. Trump ends up the first person to do this.
Not Reagan. Not either Bush.
I am sure, though, that French, and those like him, at places like the Bulwark and Dispatch will cheer this as supporting the Right to Life. No Never Trumper would complain about this.
Will be interesting to see how the Bulwark spins this as a bad thing. It’s wonderful. I think the first year he sent Pence.
There is just no way that either site would ever spin this as a bad thing.
Ha!
Well, let me tell you:
Jonathan V. Last, over at The Bulwark (no I will not link to it) sort of, kind of, says good on the President for speaking at the March for Life — President Trump being the first President to ever do so. And I agree: good for him for drawing attention to what is surely the most important moral issue of our times.
But The Bulwark being The Bulwark, and Last being a sworn Trump-hater, can’t stop there.
He’s pulling David French’s trick of constantly whining about how it looks! David French, of course, is famous for nagging evangelicals for four years that to support President Trump is to ruin one’s Christian witness. Having the Bad Orange Man at a pro-life rally looks bad! It ruins the purity of the pro-life movement!
He wraps it up with this illogical statement:
That, of course, is complete nonsense.
I mean, how hard would it have been to just say “Good for the President,” and leave it at that? Apparently, these gaslighting gasbags must make sure all pro-lifers understand that Orange Man Bad!
Good grief, the President could cure cancer and these people would say “If you accept that cure, you are complicit in his (imaginary) crimes!”
I guess I’m too cynical, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they (like the MSM) say this is Trump merely distracting attention from the impeachment trial . . .
Just wow.
I know, right? I actually looked over at Kristol and Sykes’ silly webzine because I wanted to see if they’d actually give him credit for something for a change. You know, a site that launched itself as “Conservatism Conserved” would surely praise the President for standing up for one of the bedrock issues of conservatism. Nope. Not without layering it with Orange Man Bad. Just a reminder, pro-lifers! He may be the first president EVER to speak at the March for Life, but don’t get too excited because Orange Man Bad!
To be fair, “Conservatism Conserved” has a hardcore pro-abortion supporter on staff who was rightly called out for mocking pro-lifers last year. So why should I have expected an improvement?
At least French seems to have ignored the President’s presence completely. (From what I can tell.)
I hate it when people erect strawmen to attack. No, David French did NOT say that Evangelicals and other Christians must “hate” Trump.
All his bloviating towards Trump Supporters boils down to you are a bad Christian for supporting Trump.
I know. NTs must stick together.
I am sad they cannot even celebrate this. That, at least, is not a strawman.
I don’t care, really on the Tump vs. Anti Trump.
This is as important to me as moving the Embassy in Israel. It is hugely symbolic, and that is exactly why the previous Republican presidents, even Ronald Reagan, shied away from it. This is what has been needed from a GOP president for ages.
We should all celebrate it. Anyone claiming to be Pro-life should celebrate it.
Same time next year?
I am in horrible shape. While politically I resemble Cruz, physically I resemble Christie. I still admire skillful athletes and people in excellent physical condition, and I despise the whole “normalize obesity” movement.
Perhaps there is something like that going on with Donald Trump. The guy is no social conservative personally and I doubt he practices a religion, but it seems like he respects social conservatives and religious people. He seems to agree with us, even though he’s not good at being a moral example.
Trump clearly has a gut understanding of right and wrong and patriotism. He knows lies when he sees them. The other side in this argument lies.
4 more years.
Oh they have. Trump is corrupting Pro Life Movement next.
https://thebulwark.com/trump-and-the-march-for-life/
Trump in his Fox interview after the speech played it down. “I have sent a video the last few times, but here I was in town, and I thought why not go myself.”
Not just showed up, but a very good speech.
There are very few “life or death” issues in politics but this is one of them. Wouldn’t you hate to be on the wrong side of that just because you find someone’s personality off-putting?
Kind of suggests they were always on the wrong side, but faking it for the sake of fund-raising from people they saw as rubes.
The last four years have sure been revelatory.
Indeed. They cannot celebrate it. Makes you question all they claim to hold dear.
National Review May 3, 2018.
It is not moral but a sin to support Trump who lies and pays off porn stars. After Trump is gone his Christian supporters will have no credibility left.
Yeah that’s my strawman. You are correct French does not say the words “you must hate Trump. “ Just it is immoral, sinful, hypocritical and damaging the religious movement to support Trump. My bad.
At least French is not attacking Trump here.
Well, if they did, I must have missed it. (Even if it has a “Trump” angle, the March for Life must be ignored as much as possible by the MSM.)
I understand CNN and MSNBC did not cover it. But I think the others did.