Truly mind-boggling. The Religious Right, even if it survives, will never be the same.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 22, 2016, at 12:41, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical > Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote: > > But it is nonetheless unmistakable that Trump has provoked the most > significant shake-up of the religious right in nearly 40 years. Trump became > the presumptive nominee by scoffing at religious right presidential protocol. > He divided and conquered the movement as an influencer of Republican > presidencies, neutered kingmakers who wouldn't get behind him and, once he > clinched the nomination, humiliated evangelical leaders with an impossible > set of choices: join the Never Trump camp, and risk losing influence with a > mercurial President Trump, or be seen as jettisoning sacrosanct religious > principles by caving to him. > > Cruz chose to try to face down Trump, drawing admiration from the Never Trump > minority. But Cruz, once considered one of the religious right's most loyal > foot soldiers in Washington, was booed out of his own party's convention > hall. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
