{"id":11777,"date":"2016-12-21T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=11777"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T13:48:13","slug":"katolikker-avgjorde-presidentvalget-i-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2016\/12\/katolikker-avgjorde-presidentvalget-i-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Katolikker avgjorde presidentvalget i USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

For to dager siden ble Trump formelt valgt til ny president i USA og den kjente forfatteren og kommentatoren F. H. Buckley skriver i denne artikkelen<\/a> (les om ham HER<\/a> og HER<\/a>) at det i praksis var de katolske stemmene som gjorde at Trump ble valgt: <\/p>\n

… Elections are won by the marginal voter, the swing voter, the guy right at 50 percent. And in American politics he\u2019s generally a Catholic. That\u2019s the story this time, too.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t the white Evangelicals. They went overwhelmingly for Trump, but that was also true in 2012 when they weren\u2019t even sure Romney was Christian. They aren\u2019t the swing voters.<\/p>\n

Catholics, on the other hand, were plus-2 for Obama in 2012 and plus-7 for Trump this year. Evangelicals helped Trump in states he was mostly going to win anyway. Catholics? Now we\u2019re talking about Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. And that was the election. …<\/p>\n

… But why (did the Catholics vote republican)? Because Trump\u2019s Republican Party is culturally Catholic, in a way that today\u2019s Democrats never could be, and that yesterday\u2019s Republicans, even the Reaganauts, never quite were.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying Trump Republicans are Catholic, of course. Many of them are, most aren\u2019t. What I\u2019m saying is that, apart from the dogmas, there\u2019s a Catholic sensibility that lay Catholics get and that Trump supporters share.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not sectarian. It\u2019s about sensibilities.<\/p>\n

First off, the church is catholic in the small-c sense, meaning universal and composed of just about every ethnic group. James Joyce saw this, and thought the church\u2019s motto should be \u201cHere comes everybody.\u201d That was Trump\u2019s motto, too.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it was the Democrats who practiced the politics of division. In private comments, leading Democrats ridiculed Catholics, and in an exchange with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, President Obama\u2019s solicitor general suggested Catholic and religious colleges that are faithful to their beliefs might lose federal funds.<\/p>\n

Hillary Clinton herself said our legal system must reform \u201cdeep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases\u201d to ensure ready access to abortion. … <\/p>\n

Second, like Trump supporters, Catholics are patriotic and strongly attracted to the call to \u201cmake America great again.\u201d They don\u2019t think they need apologize to anyone for their country, and they don\u2019t like what\u2019s happened to American history as it\u2019s taught in our schools and universities.<\/p>\n

Third, lay Catholics, at least the nonintellectuals, aren\u2019t the prisoners of political ideology. They\u2019re looking for policies that speak to the concerns of ordinary Americans, things that work, not abstract theories.<\/p>\n

Did you ever hear Trump talk about John Locke? Neither did I. Instead, he talked about a corrupt elite, a middle class left behind, jobs lost. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For to dager siden ble Trump formelt valgt til ny president i USA og den kjente forfatteren og kommentatoren F. H. Buckley skriver i denne artikkelen (les om ham HER og HER) at det i praksis var de katolske stemmene som gjorde at Trump ble valgt: … Elections are won by the marginal voter, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generelt","category-katolsk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11777"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11786,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11777\/revisions\/11786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}