Even Archbishop Chaput, who is hardly a squishy liberal, says that Trump has “astonishing flaws.” He opined that neither candidate is clearly superior to the other, and that Catholics could decide to support either, or neither of them.
catholicphilly.com/2016/08/think-tank/archbishop-chaput-column/some-personal-thoughts-on-the-months-ahead/
Interesting. One wonders whether he has considered the Supreme Court appointments each promises to make. Flaws are flaws, but the legal system my children and grandchildren inherit is something else entirely. One remembers that the Bill Clinton appointee was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who always votes to support abortion, even partial birth abortion, and who has opined that the age of sexual consent should be 12.
I guess I am arch-conservative, even reactionary, in today’s U.S., in thinking the courts should be interpreting and applying the law passed by representatives as well as the constitution as written, rather than instead of inventing novel opinions designed to effect cultural change.
So, for me, there’s no choice to this but Trump. If Abp Chaput feels there is no moral difference between the candidates, that’s his to judge for himself, and perhaps he’s right. But for me, it’s a more practical matter affecting whether my children and grandchildren live under the rule of law or that of executive fiat backed by a radical judiciary.
And as a purely practical, and more selfish, matter, as a sometime investor I dread the near certainty that the winners and losers in the economy will be determined by what giant corporation (or country) gives the most money to Hillary Clinton. I would rather see the markets determine those outcomes.
But probably those practical (and to a degree selfish) considerations are not the kinds of things Abp Chaput is concerned with.
