# Just When I Began to Breath Easy Concerning the Future of Politics in America . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [August 10, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-began-to-breath-easy-concerning-the-future-of-politics-in-america/948392 "2021-08-10T18:15:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
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> [@Velocity](#): > > Theocracy has appeal for many believers of many stripes. All it would take would be a charismatic Republican candidate, without Trump’s baggage or boorish childishness, who strikes the right religious chord with many minority voters, to be a game changer. If some famous and well known pastor or religious speaker were to go into politics, he could be a Trump 2.0. The good news for Democrats is that no such candidate appears on the horizon yet. When I got to this part of the article, I thought of your statement above and how true it is, but how hard it might be for the GOP to put Trump behind them: _“You got to put on the full armor of God,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, alluding to a passage from Ephesians that’s often used to invoke a “spiritual war” against the devil. “You got to take a stand, take a stand against the Left’s schemes.”_ _The end-of-the-world vision at the heart of the new Republican orthodoxy may help explain a further observation: The people who attend these kinds of religious nationalist gatherings—the activist backbone of the Republican Party—are in no mood to back down from the January 6th attempt to subvert the presidential election through a brutal and disgraceful attack on our Capitol. Sometime around January 7, some parts of the mainstream wisdom coalesced around the idea that the Republican Party now had a chance to separate itself from the anti-democratic elements within. That moment has passed. There will be no reckoning within the Republican Party over Donald Trump’s attempted coup, and any Republican who tries will be excluded from gatherings like these._ _In conversation with conference organizer Ralph Reed, Eric Metaxas let it be known that the real victims of the January 6th event were the good people who ransacked the Capitol. He fired “an arrow across their bow” (his words) to Republican leaders: “Any Republican that has not spoken in defense of the January 6th people to me is dead. They’re dead.”_ _The right-wing political commentator and activist Dinesh D’Souza, also in conversation with Ralph Reed, echoed the sentiment. “The people who are getting shafted right now are the January 6 protesters,” he said. “We won’t defend our guys even when they’re good guys.”_ _Reed nodded and replied, “I think Trump taught our movement a lot.”_ Also, since I killed **ThelmaLou** ’s thread with pedantic articles and it directly relates to this topic I am going to try to link to it. (If I fail- little help please?) [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-christians-are-coming-the-christians-are-coming/946304/128](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-christians-are-coming-the-christians-are-coming/946304/128) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-i-began-to-breath-easy-concerning-the-future-of-politics-in-america/948392)._