The Intolerant Left

The reaction of the media and the left (but I repeat myself) to Mike Lindell’s public profession of piety at the White House this week is one more vivid reminder that liberals are the most intolerant people around today. No wonder they talk about “tolerance” so much: they are compensating for their obvious lack of it.

I have an idea for Trump. As the coronavirus crisis continues, and especially as we run up to election day in November, he should make a point of quoting Franklin Roosevelt’s many pious declarations. It will cause leftists to have an embolism. As I explain in one of my old books:

FDR, an Episcopalian, made the kind of remarks about religion that send the American Civil Liberties Union into paroxysms of rage when someone like George W. Bush or Sarah Palin say the same thing today.  Democracy and Christianity, he said, were “two phases of the same civilization.”  “We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation,” he said, “without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic.” During World War II FDR wrote a preface for an edition of the New Testament that was distributed to American troops: “As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of the United States.”  On the eve of the 1940 election, FDR said in a radio address: “Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.”  On June 6, 1944, FDR led the nation in prayer for our armed forces on live radio, and in his final inaugural address in 1945 he said, “So we pray to Him for the vision to see our way clearly … to achievement of His will.”  Today’s liberals would regard these statements and acts as grounds for impeachment.

People often remark that John F. Kennedy couldn’t be nominated by today’s Democratic Party. Neither could FDR. Maybe Conrad Black is right about FDR.

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