A post-literate, post-Christian, broken culture has chosen its representative
By Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite:
It’s official now: Republican primary voters have chosen Donald Trump as their presidential nominee. In one fell swoop, they have managed to confirm dozens of left-wing caricatures about right-wing people: racism, misogyny, unscrupulous business ethics, and nationalism with discomfiting echoes from the no-so-far-off past. After eight years of Barack Obama, Republican voters could have chosen the first no-exceptions pro-life candidate, a rock-ribbed constitutional conservative, a champion of religious liberty. Instead, they chose an orange New York business tycoon with a history of radical abortion support, a string of discarded wives, and a complete disregard for religious liberty.
[…] Trump supporters are now going crazy on social media, demanding that those who told them Trump was, as Ted Cruz said in the dying hours of his campaign, an “amoral narcissist,” get on board the Trump train. Their incoherence is only matched by their fury. To watch the emotion-wracked game of Twister some of these once-conservative people engage in to try and justify their support for the man who suggested removing the pro-life plank from the Republican Party platform would be amusing were it not so sad and depressing. It reminded me of something I read some time ago in Chris Hedges’ appropriately named book Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle:
[…] Once you start looking long and hard at numbers that explain our culture, Donald Trump starts to make a lot of sense. A post-literate, post-Christian, broken culture has chosen a man that they feel represents them. Perhaps they’re right.
Read also: Trump vs Hillary: When God Forsakes a Nation by Bill Muehlenberg, CultureWatch
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