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Look for the humanity, not the heresy

Look for the humanity, not the heresy

Do bad politics make you a bad person? And if so, what do we do about it?

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Aug 28, 2024
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Not news: the internet is mad at David French again.

News: this time it’s not just MAGA right-wingers denouncing him as a beta cuck RINO, but also left-wingers attacking him for the heretical proposition that there are good Christians amongst Trump voters, just as there are good Christians amongst Harris voters and even good Christians amongst Kennedy voters…wait.

French posted this to Threads and to Twitter, and he’s mostly getting ratioed by liberals on the former and right-wingers on the latter. But that’s for another column.

History Boomer agrees with French, from a secular point of view, and proposes a thought experiment:

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