"How was a clever, delicately moralizing Catholic Republican supposed to absorb the total annihilation of conservative political pretensions to Christian goodness, at the hands of a godless degenerate vulgarian?" Oh, but haven't you heard? Cheetolini, er, Donald Trump, is a Man of God! Jerry Falwell Jr. and other Men of God told us so, and they wouldn't lie to us, would they?
Brother Douthat always could - maybe, possibly, conceivably - do what I did many years ago, namely realize that most of what he was brought up to believe is bullshit promulgated by stupid and/or vicious people. He is, as you say, "clever", so he might be capable of this, although to be sure, it would be a trifle inconvenient for him at this point.
"How was a clever, delicately moralizing Catholic Republican supposed to absorb the total annihilation of conservative political pretensions to Christian goodness, at the hands of a godless degenerate vulgarian?" Oh, but haven't you heard? Cheetolini, er, Donald Trump, is a Man of God! Jerry Falwell Jr. and other Men of God told us so, and they wouldn't lie to us, would they?
Brother Douthat always could - maybe, possibly, conceivably - do what I did many years ago, namely realize that most of what he was brought up to believe is bullshit promulgated by stupid and/or vicious people. He is, as you say, "clever", so he might be capable of this, although to be sure, it would be a trifle inconvenient for him at this point.