“That’s such a misreading of what the political DNA of America is,” he said. And he’s vulnerable not just because of his personal history and public demeanor, which amount to a raging bonfire of the pieties. He also has governed in ways that contradict the principles of charity and mercy that are central to many religions. Pete Buttigieg took gorgeously effective note of this in the Democrats’ first debate, in June, referring to the Trump administration’s treatment of migrants at the border. “The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion,” he observed.

Source: New York Times October 22, 2019 23:15 UTC