2016 Sept 14^th

Cal Thomas must believe that he is one of Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables.” Clinton is now famous for saying, “You can put half of Trump supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.” Thomas says, “This is the contempt with which the left holds traditional Americans.” Then Thomas continues his pity party by citing Michael Weiskopf who wrote that evangelical Christians were, “…mostly poor, uneducated and easily commanded.” Thomas tells us that this comment, “Prompted scores of evangelicals to send their resumes to the newspaper showing degrees, even doctorates, in various fields.” Thomas goes on to cite the RNC Chairman Priebus who claimed Clinton showed disrespect and condescension to her fellow Americans. Then Thomas says, “Half of them anyway…”

What a plethora of nonsense: We begin with Thomas’ comment that the half of the Trump supporters Clinton was talking about are “traditional Americans.” That would include David Duke and his KKK friends as well as other white supremacists and assorted bigots. These, according to Thomas, are traditional Americans. Thomas needs to get out and about more.

Priebus says that Clinton “disrespects” fellow citizens to which Thomas adds “Half of them anyway…” Cal seems to have a problem with fractions: Clinton specifically said “half” of Trump supporters were deplorable until she corrected herself suggesting that figure was too high. Half, or less, of Trump supporters are surely not half our citizens. Maybe a quarter of our citizens are Trump supporters.

Weiskopf’s analysis that evangelical Christians, “…are mostly poor, uneducated…” is not contradicted by a few self-selected, furious evangelicals sending their resumes to the local paper. Trump has hoodwinked Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, our most famous evangelical. Dobson is convinced that Trump is “a baby Christian” who can sometimes be “obscure” when he answers questions about his religion. That’s probably when he receives the sacrament and says that he feels “cleansed” after, “I drink my  little bit of wine (that’s the only wine I drink by the way) and eat my little cracker.” …Isn’t it curious that Cal Thomas, late of the Moral Majority, has absolutely nothing to say about that Trump comment? What an interesting “baby Christian” is Donald Trump.

An interesting note in all of Cal Thomas’ writings is the term “secular progressives.” That term occurs in the very first sentence of this piece. Perhaps Thomas only has a beef with “secular” progressives, not so much with Christian progressives…or maybe he doesn’t believe there are any Christian progressives.