<div dir="ltr">You are right so much comes down to authentic leadership based upon humble service!  Regrettably, it is not something most politicians understand in the pursuit of power in a world to use Bismarck's phrase of "realpolitik".<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 4:48 PM pals--- via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">
<p>all sad but true. similar problems caused rise of Franco in Spain. </p>
<p id="gmail-m_1175136124925872841reply-intro">On 2020-12-24 13:27, David Walsh via craic wrote:</p>
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<div>This article has interesting points about ‘Evangelicals’.-- re our discussion last Saturday. I expect one could write a similar piece on the over 50% of Catholic who supported Trump.</div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(77,150,174);font-family:Georgia"><em>by </em><a href="https://www.cardus.ca/comment/browse/contributor/pwehner" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Peter Wehner</em></a></span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40)">“The crisis facing American evangelicalism goes much deeper than Donald Trump and the Trump presidency. Mr. Trump didn’t appear <span style="color:black"><em>ex nihilo</em></span><span style="color:black">; he took advantage of the opening he was presented. If during the Republican primary in 2016 evangelicals hadn’t rallied in such large numbers to support Trump when every other candidate was far more deserving of their support, at least based on any previous metric evangelical Christians said mattered to them, Trump would never have won the nomination</span><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri">.”</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40)">In her book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Pews-Partisanship-Political-Environment/dp/022655578X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(77,150,174)"><em><u>From Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity</u></em></span></a>, Michele Margolis of the University of Pennsylvania shows how it’s not simply our religious beliefs that shape our politics, but our politics that shape our religious choices. It turns out partisan identity can have an overpowering and pernicious effect.</span></div>
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