Amy Coney Barrett's Faith? Off-Limits. Raphael Warnock's? Fair Game.
One of the great strengths of the conservative movement is the capacity of the entire apparatus, from Fox News superheroes on down to the rank-and-file shitposter, to get intergalactically outraged in unison and on-demand. The resentment machine is so fine-tuned at this point that it is capable of kicking into high gear before the outrageous incident has even occurred. We saw this ahead of the nomination hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, when Republicans got pre-outraged about potential Democratic questioning that might probe Barrett's religious faith—including her membership in People of Praise, a Catholic group with rituals and traditions that...fall outside mainstream Church practice. Senator Dianne Feinstein blundered her way through some questioning on this front during hearings on Barrett's appointment to an appeals court in 2017, but there was virtually no Democratic probing here this time around, surely at least in part because the pre-outrage was so intense. This stuff works.
Among the early outrage merchants was Senator Marco Rubio, who issued a statement on September 26 that was preemptively indignant. "Sadly, I expect my Democratic colleagues and the radical left to do all they can to assassinate her character and once again make an issue of her faith during her confirmation process," he said. Assassination by radicals! That does sound bad. Questioning someone's fitness for public office based on their religious beliefs is completely unacceptable, you see. It shouldn't factor into how you assess their candidacy at all. Just ask Senator Marco Rubio, who offered some thoughts on Wednesday regarding Raphael Warnock, the Democratic candidate in one of Georgia's two upcoming Senate runoff elections.
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Never mind that what Warnock is saying appears to be an adaptation of the Sermon on the Mount delivered by Jesus Christ, a guy who never was big on militarism. And never mind that Warnock can often be found speaking from the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church, once home to Martin Luther King, Jr., who himself said, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
And never mind that critiquing the destructive and insanely expensive misadventures of American empire is not, contrary to the party line of Bush-era Republicans, an attack on citizens who choose to serve in the military. In fact, demanding just cause for sending American men and women into harm's way is the single best way to advocate on behalf of The Troops. After all, about two thirds of veterans now say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting. This is just about the only issue where Donald Trump has healthy instincts, although it's impossible to trust that his newest push to withdraw American forces from the Mideast is based in the public interest. But this is also the one issue where Traditional Serious Republicans like Rubio or Mitch McConnell will reliably break with the president. And some of those Bush-era patriotic attack dogs have, after all, now restyled themselves as Never Trumpers.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/amy-coney-barretts-faith-off-184800245.html
But Amy Coney Barret is white. Republican white privilege.
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