{"id":1577955,"date":"2022-07-29T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577955"},"modified":"2022-07-29T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T13:33:00","slug":"instead-of-praising-death-of-roe-v-wade-russell-moore-breaks-silence-to-trash-trump-and-his-voters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/instead-of-praising-death-of-roe-v-wade-russell-moore-breaks-silence-to-trash-trump-and-his-voters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Instead Of Praising Death Of Roe v. Wade, Russell Moore Breaks Silence To Trash Trump And His Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finstead-of-praising-death-of-roe-v-wade-russell-moore-breaks-silence-to-trash-trump-and-his-voters-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1577955&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Russell Moore, one of the biggest names in modern evangelicalism, broke his silence on the overturning of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> during a panel at a recent Ethics and Public Policy Center event, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_jO1E9xRx1E&#038;ab_channel=EthicsandPublicPolicyCenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video<\/a> of which was posted online in early July.<\/p>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/29\/russell-moore-wont-celebrate-dobbs-because-hed-have-to-admit-pro-trump-christians-are-good-at-loving-their-neighbors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> last month, Moore\u2019s public muteness on the matter might have seemed odd to some, not only because the religious leader has both \u201cpublic\u201d and \u201ctheology\u201d in his current title at Christianity Today, but because he\u2019s been a longtime voice in the pro-life movement. But it made sense to anyone who\u2019s followed Moore\u2019s trajectory. After years of dragging down Trump-supporting evangelicals \u2014 voters who made a careful calculation and helped install the president who confirmed three conservative Supreme Court justices that made up the <em>Dobbs<\/em> majority \u2014 there wasn\u2019t much Moore could have said but mea culpa.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but never underestimate the hubris of an ear-tickled right-wing defector, especially one with a track record like Moore. In his social media absence, he came up with something to say that didn\u2019t include admitting error: <em>Nope, overturning a deadly precedent that ruled for half a century and resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/nrlc.org\/uploads\/factsheets\/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 63 million<\/a> lives lost doesn\u2019t vindicate conservative Trump voters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an operative exchange between Moore and Time magazine national political correspondent Molly Ball:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>MOLLY BALL: I\u2019m sure this is an argument that you heard a lot, that we all heard a lot in the Trump years, this idea that sort of a vulgar vessel was necessary to achieve holy aims. And in the wake of this decision, a lot of those people are taking a victory lap, saying, see? We were right. He gave us what we wanted. Are they, in fact, vindicated?<\/p>\n<p>RUSSELL MOORE: Well, here\u2019s the argument that they would use. The argument that they would use is that there had to be a disruptive figure who would be willing to do whatever it took to appoint the sorts of people who would hand down the Dobbs case. I don\u2019t buy that argument for a number of reasons. And one of them, the author of the Dobbs case is a George W. Bush appointee. I don\u2019t think that you would have had largely any different decision from a Jeb Bush court or Marco Rubio court, a Ted Cruz court, than you would have with a Donald Trump court, especially given the way that attention is so carefully paid now on both the right and the left to court appointments. So I don\u2019t think that Donald Trump uniquely was going to make judicial appointments that someone else wouldn\u2019t have made.<\/p>\n<p>I also think that one has to look not only at the final result in this case but what is the cost of hitching the pro-life movement to a figure such as this. Now again, I think people can make arguments in various ways, but that is deeply concerning to me. I don\u2019t think you can have, long term, a pro-life ethic without a concern for vulnerability, a concern for women, character. I mean, I think all of those things matter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>You Still Don\u2019t Get Trump<\/h2>\n<p>Moore seriously errs in his post-<em>Roe<\/em> conclusion for two primary reasons, and the first is evident in the above passage.<\/p>\n<p>First, Moore is wrong that Donald Trump wasn\u2019t \u201cuniquely\u201d suited to lead the conservative legal project. Set aside the inescapable fact that by the time many Christians \u201csupported\u201d Trump \u2014 or in a number of cases reluctantly voted for him before having substantive proof of how effectively he would govern \u2014 he was already the nominee. <\/p>\n<p>But additionally, in bringing up Trump\u2019s primary opponents Cruz, Bush, and Rubio, Moore begs the question. There\u2019s no reason to assume that if any of them were the nominee, they would have gotten out the populist swing-state votes to tip the scales away from their pro-abortion opponent. In 2016, Republicans achieved a narrow margin of victory in an election with historic turnout, meaning the alternative to the populist Trump and his court nominees likely wouldn\u2019t have been a roster of comparatively milquetoast Republicans. It would have been Hillary Clinton and her picks.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>even if<\/em> one of the other GOP candidates had been successful in securing the White House, Bush and perhaps even Rubio, would not have risked political capital in 2018 to stand beside a pick such as now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose character was viciously attacked with baseless accusations of gang rape.<\/p>\n<h2>Did Corporate Media Write This?<\/h2>\n<p>Second, and most detrimentally, Moore has completely bought into the framing of left-wing media and other cut-throat opponents of conservatives, especially as it relates to Trump as a \u201cdisruptive figure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can see this in the above passage, with phrases like \u201cthe cost of hitching the pro-life movement to a figure such as this.\u201d And Moore invokes the deeply flawed analysis of the likes of David French and even <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/30\/theologian-john-pipers-case-against-trump-is-intellectually-and-morally-bankrupt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Piper<\/a> when he singles out Trump\u2019s \u201ccharacter,\u201d as if we can dispense with that character analysis when it comes to a pro-abortion, pro-transgender opponent who helped concoct a yearslong hoax to cheat her way into the presidency and regards half the country as deplorable.  <\/p>\n<p>This single point wouldn\u2019t be proof positive of Moore\u2019s media trance, but there\u2019s much more evidence than that spanning left-wing talking points outside the abortion realm. During just this one event, Moore parroted the media\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NM6k8uNAQBA&#038;ab_channel=PragerU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infamous Charlottesville lie<\/a>. He promoted the leftist worldview that everything in life connects to skin color (invoking The Bulwark\u2019s founder Charlie Sykes). He repeated the media\u2019s gaslighting that the \u201cgreat replacement theory\u201d is a right-wing conspiracy rather than an explicit Democrat strategy, and with a straight face, he said: \u201c\u2026The Jan. 6 Committee hearings are so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that was justs one panel. In the past, Moore has taken the same tack when it comes to so-called \u201cChristian nationalism,\u201d former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, white supremacy, and plenty more.<\/p>\n<h2>Why Not Triumph?<\/h2>\n<p>Moore\u2019s hubris over the entire post-<em>Roe<\/em> conversation might best be captured by his ironic foray into addressing \u201ctriumphalism\u201d in the wake of <em>Dobbs<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Often, the people who over the past several days have been sounding the least triumphalist and the most, sort of, \u201clet\u2019s persuade our neighbors of this position,\u201d are the very people who have been actively working in this area in the trenches for 15, 20 years. Some of the people who have been the most own-the-libs-ish in the way that they\u2019re speaking are the people who\u2019ve been the least involved in the actual trenches of the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, he\u2019s got us all figured out. We morally stained Trump voters celebrating the untold lives that will be saved in post-<em>Roe<\/em> America \u2014 a victory we thought we might never see in our lifetimes \u2014 are just trying to own the libs. No regard for neighbor here and certainly no real pro-life work. Meanwhile, Moore \u2014 who would no doubt put himself in the first, in-the-trenches category \u2014 can\u2019t possibly \u201ctriumph\u201d in a massive pro-life victory because Trump had something to do with it and because Moore is too busy being winsome.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an alternative position: If you can\u2019t talk about a massive blow to a death-culture industry that exploits women and murders innocents without uttering, \u201cbut Trump\u2026\u201d and putting down fellow pro-life Christians who don\u2019t share your politics, perhaps you\u2019re confused on who exactly your neighbor is. <\/p>\n<p>And if you can\u2019t be a \u201ctriumphalist\u201d about the biggest pro-life victory in half a century, are you really trying to \u201cpersuade [your] neighbors of this position,\u201d or are you trying to persuade the world that hates you that you\u2019re not one of <em>those <\/em>Christians?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Griswold is an assistant editor at The Federalist. 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