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Rod Dreher

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12 Dec 20

There's some large guy onstage at the DC rally named "Shofar So Great" (shofarsogreat.com/about-us/) claiming to be an Orthodox Jew who says his rabbi in Israel gave him permission to break Shabbat to support Donald Trump and blow the shofar at the Jericho March.

Now he's blowing the Trump Shofar, especially made for You Know Who. This dude is like a wizard.

Lady in Women For Trump t-shirt came onstage to praise "Yeshua ha Mashiach" -- Jesus the Messiah -- and to sing the Star Spangled Banner. Crowd shouts, "USA! USA!" Now comes Eric Metaxas praising "Yeshua ha Mashiach." Says Eric, "'Hallelujah' is American for 'praise the Lord.'"

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Rod Dreher

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25 Aug 20

Maximo Alvarez, the Cuban refugee from Miami, is a fantastic spokesman for Trump. He's absolutely terrific. I'm near tears. "I may be Cuban-born, but I'm 100 percent American! This is the greatest country in the world."

OK, I'm crying. What a great man.

You don't have to agree with his political choice to recognize what his life stands for, and who he is, is a beautiful thing. That jarring commercial after he finished was terrible.

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Rod Dreher

@roddreher

13 Sep 19

A thread about Hungarian politics. Make of it what you will. In Budapest last week, I got into a conversation with a service worker at a business that caters to a large tourist clientele. We talked about Viktor Orban. He began by making fun of Orban. It was clear that [more]

he was putting on a mask for the Westerner (me). When I told him that I wasn't going to judge him for his political views, he changed his story. He told me that he was an Orban supporter. Said that he knows that Orban's rule means a fair amount of corruption [more]

(He mentioned the case of the unaccountably rich mayor of Orban's hometown -- something I heard more than once in Budapest.) But the young man said that that was something he could live with. Why? Because V. Orban is the only politician in the country who, in his view, [more]

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Rod Dreher

@roddreher

11 Sep 19

So: I began today before daylight in Vienna, and now I'm ending the day sitting at gate for Baton Rouge flight, listening to elderly Cajuns discuss pros and cons of wearing Crocs. I give them five minutes before they start on dem Tigahs. This is my life, and I'm happy with it.

Now one of the ladies is talking about how her husband took the dog to the vet because she (the dog) ate a plate of spicy meat and rice that the husband fed her. ("She eats whatevah he eats." The dog sleeps between them too. ("She'll growl at me in da bed.") Dat man loves his dog

"I said to him, 'Wut's da contingency plan if she doys?' He said, 'She betta not doy!' I said to him dat we got alligatahs, so we gotta be thinkin' bout it."

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Rod Dreher

@roddreher

20 Aug 19

I'm one of those conservatives who has been listening to NPR all his adult life, and who has been a member (donor) off and on through the years. NPR is part of my family's culture; my 12 y.o. daughter *literally* wants to be an NPR correspondent when she grows up. So [more]

it really hit me hard last week when I got so angry at NPR over its bias that I turned the car radio off twice. I don't have strong feelings about the immigration issue, but my god, NPR, does it even occur to you how one-sided your reporting is? [more]

I'm used to NPR being liberal. It comes with the territory. But on immigration -- and more broadly, cultural issues -- NPR has seemingly become more and more about advocacy journalism. I say this as someone who has been listening regularly since the 1980s. [more]

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Rod Dreher

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5 Aug 18

I have a sincere request for folks who reach out, or who are thinking of reaching out, to journalists with their own stories of clerical abuse, corruption, etc. Journalists reporting on this are eager to hear your stories if you have good information /more

It can be helpful to have background info, to better understand what's happening in a given situation. But here's what's really frustrating, esp for journalists (like me) who want to see bad things end and good things happen /more

I can't tell you how many e-mails I've rec'd over the years covering the Catholic Church scandal from people -- priests and laity -- who have seen and lived with corruption and abuse, and who are sincerely desperate for things to change, and who say, in the end, /more

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