We’ve documented how WorldNetDaily columnist Michael Brown handwaves President Trump’s amoral and immoral behavior because he keeps delivering the right-wing goods. And he does so again in a Jan. 28 column.
Brown again offers up a little faux caring about Trump’s behavior, complete with italics: “Quite obviously, as an evangelical, I do not back the president’s every word or decision, especially when he waxes ugly and even vulgar.” Then he enumerates concerns about “some of the potential Democratic presidential candidates”; he repeats some of the usual right-wing attacks then, being the anti-gay activist he is, offers special to Pete Buttigieg for being “the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and if elected, would be the nation’s first gay president.” He also singled out “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new face of the Democratic Party,” even though she is not only not running for president, she’s not even eligible to do so in 2020.
But Brown’s point here is to once again cynically justify supporting Trump:
If 2020 came down to any of these putative Democrat candidates vs. Trump, it would be a no-brainer for me. Trump would get my vote.
And then there is that six-letter word: courts.
Last week, a state judge in Iowa struck down the “fetal heartbeat” bill, which prevents abortions once the baby’s heartbeat can be detected.
As reported by a local news outlet, “Judge Michael Huppert found the law unconstitutional, concluding that the Iowa Supreme Court’s earlier decisions that affirm a woman’s fundamental right to an abortion would include the new law passed last year.”
We desperately need judges who will do away with the myth of “a woman’s fundamental right to an abortion” and will instead rule in favor of life.
Against this backdrop, it is critically important that Trump recently renominated 50 judges for federal positions, including two for San Francisco’s notoriously far-left 9th Circuit Court. And Trump’s list of 50 is filled with solid conservatives.
In contrast, can you imagine what kind of judges a far-left Democratic president would nominate?
[…]In light of the positive transformation of the courts, I will gladly put up with the president’s divisive ways as much as I regret them. Again, the alternative leaves me no choice.
Brown concluded:
In an ideal world, we would have a president who was a shining example of Christlikeness, well-versed in the Scriptures and serving as the leader of all Americans, from all faiths and backgrounds. And perhaps that day will come, even in our lifetimes.
But right now, as the Democratic Party continues to lurch left, as the courts play a bigger and bigger role in our society, and as the secular media exposes its extreme bigotry and bias, I am reminded afresh of why I voted for Trump in 2016.
And that’s why, given similar choices in 2020, I would vote for him again.
At least he’s being consistently hypocritical.