Fox News has played an enormous role in de-centering and disempowering the standard media. So it is enormously disappointing, or maybe just revealing, to hear a Fox News Sunday panel trying to explain a lot of things.
Trump’s rise? Okay I’ve had my own troubles on that. But when Fox News trys to carve up the field into “uniters” and “dividers,” they are in enemy territory. Nothing will make sense if you think this way.
Even worse, Dorothy Rabinowitz tries to portray Scott Walker as a “divider” because he endorses a states’ right amendment on marriage:
But I have to say, when you count Walker in the top tier, the more I listen to him, the more I think, he promised for one thing his willingness to go and—were he president, he would announce for having a states vote on whether you could have one man, one woman. This is the kind of polarizing reach out that is not going to play well.
I have enormous doubts about Scott Walker; let me play my cards here openly. But the idea that gay marriage is somehow the main polarizing divide and Republicans need to get with the program? How out of touch can you be, very smart lady named Dorothy?
Commentary like this explains a lot about Trump—even though Trump himself has not showed courage (yet) on the gay marriage issue.
Maggie Gallagher is a senior fellow at American Principles in Action.
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Don’t you remember 2000-2004 back when people cared about you and your issues? Bush could have pushed for an amendment, but he wasn’t about to, no matter what he said. Flash forward to a post-Obergefell world. Trump is crazy like a fox. I would be willing to bet he wants nothing to do with things that are not even remotely going to happen: like any kind of Constitutional Amendment banning same sex marriage or even turning it over to the states. And you know as well as I do, even the candidates that say they want such things know they are simply paying lip service to the religious right, who have ever-diminishing political power. I am betting that Trump says “you’re fired” to NOM, Tony Perkins and all the other ball and chain groups that time has passed by. Even what should have been low-hanging fruit like Pence and Asa Hutchinson “modified” their fervor in the face of a big business revolt. Trump will be in their camp, not yours, as will any other GOP candidate with any hope of general election appeal.
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