🧵Trump, Neo-Cons, and the RNC The removal of Christian morality...
Dusty Deevers@DustyDeevers
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Jul 18, 2024
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🧵Trump, Neo-Cons, and the RNC
The removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform this week is a travesty that I fiercely oppose. But we must be realistic about what the previous platform really was. (1/17)
The removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform this week is a travesty that I fiercely oppose. But we must be realistic about what the previous platform really was. (1/17)
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It was a tool for tricking Christian conservatives into thinking Neo-Conservatives (the previous Republican establishment) were our friends. Let me explain. (2/17)
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The Neo-Con establishment–which dominated the party ever since George H.W. Bush defeated Pat Buchannan in the 1992 Republican Presidential Primary–paid lip service to being pro-life and pro-family while barely lifting a finger to defend preborn children. They simply didn't have the passion for social issues or the backbone to really take on the left. (3/17)
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They fought for nothing and conserved nothing. Their social views merely trailed a few years behind the left’s. But they needed Christians in their coalition, so they paid lip service to pro-lifers and allowed for Christianity in the party platform. (4/17)
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But they never intended to take the bold action that needed taken. Forget abolition bills or human life amendments: only one pro-life law was passed by the federal government in the 36 years since H.W. Bush became President despite multiple instances of total GOP control. (5/17)
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Even then, it was the Partial Birth Abortion Ban of 2003 which only prohibited the killing of children outside the womb. Like most others, it was a do-nothing pro-life bill. (6/17)
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Any reasonable assessment of the social conservative-neo conservative alliance results in the conclusion that Christians were played by the Neo-Cons who pandered to us for votes but never gave us results. (7/17)
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During this time, many churches receded from Moral Majority-type engagement to build more seeker sensitive churches that explicitly shunned political engagement as “divisive” and “distracting to the work of the gospel.” These were all euphemisms to cover the cowardice of these churches as they refused to speak out on important cultural/political issues that our Lord speaks plainly about in His Word. (8/17)
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The attractional, seeker-sensitive church was a perfect fit for the attractional, “compassionate conservative” Republican party. Out of those two attractional entities came the weak and compromising pro-life establishment organizations. It was a cozy and spineless “pro-life, pro-family” arrangement that benefited everyone except preborn children. (9/17)
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So when we rightly rebuke the current RNC for conceding on social issues, we should do so under no misconception that the party was previously a stalwart defender of Christian morality. We should do so with zero intention to return to the Christian-Neo Con alliance. (10/17)
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We should do so while looking forward to a potentially new Republican Party that has both a backbone and Christian values.
Which brings us to Donald Trump. (11/17)
Which brings us to Donald Trump. (11/17)
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Sick of spineless, feckless, “family values" Neo-Cons, Republican voters emphatically handed the reins in 2016 to someone who didn’t speak the typical GOP language but who capitalized on populist energy and offered brash opposition to the left. (12/17) x.com/SteveDeaceShow…
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While Donald Trump has referenced God and Christian morals, one would be hard pressed to say he has run on a consistent Christian platform or that he is a social conservative. That much has been made increasingly clear, culminating with his recent success in removing Christian values on abortion and marriage from the 2024 RNC platform. (13/17)
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However, the populist movement Trump cultivated has led to the rise of right-wingers (who are more socially conservative than Trump) who, unlike the Neo-Cons, actually have some testosterone and a backbone: men like Ron DeSantis, Josh Hawley, JD Vance, and Ken Paxton. (14/17)
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Under the previous Neo-Con establishment, such men would never have been able to rise as they have. And while they are not where they need to be on abortion and marriage, they are the sort of men who are pulling the party to the right and who actually fight for what they say on the campaign trail. There is the potential to move guys like this to abolish abortion, restore the American way of life, and achieve other important objectives in a way that the Neo-Cons were never going to. (15/17)
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My main point is this: there's no going back. What’s behind us is even worse than the train wreck we are watching at the RNC right now. We must look forward, continue to minimize Neo-Cons, and influence the New Right with abolitionist and Christian Nationalist principles. (16/17)
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While we should be horrified at the current actions of the RNC and righteously rebuke everybody responsible, Trump included, we should be thankful that we are not having this conversation with Jeb Bush. (17/17)
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