Is "decency" now on the ballot?

 Colin Jost, headline SNL comedian at the White House Correspondence Dinner on April 27, put his finger on a significant word: " decency. It is why we are here tonight." He explained why his firefighter grandfather from Staten Island, Trump land, voted for Biden: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/27/politics/video/colin-jost-grandfather-story-biden-vote-digvid      He may have put "decency" on the ballot in November. Perhaps "decency" touches a nerve more deeply than "democracy is on the ballot".  Recently, others have put it in different terms: Trump has no moral compass. If anything, the Stormy Daniels-related trial reminded us of what an immoral man he is. Trump's compass is and has been "transactional"; he will get the best deal for himself whether or not it benefits anyone else.  The most horrific contribution to American culture has been to normalize indecency as so many have just turned a blind eye to it to support him for other reasons.  

On another social page that provides a private forum of discussion and debate and is an interface between left and right of the political spectrum, one from the right touted their fellow supporters as churchgoers and indicated they were morally superior to the libs.  That one got my dander up. I wrote:

Those God-fearing churchgoers are among the quickest to look the other way at the most immoral, amoral, porn star lover, wife cheater, and unethical fraudster in the history of this country because he promises them white Christian supremacy rule that will suppress all those not like them. 

From my blog: "The rise of Donald Trump has given partisans an excuse and a green light to behave indecently and disgustingly. We need a "coalition of the decent" of leaders and citizens who rise above economic and political self-interest, or as a country, we will continue to sink into the Trump moral mudmire by excusing and accepting his indecency."  https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/trumps-greatest-contribution-to.html

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Update: 5/16/2024

A puzzle that probably answers itself:  The GOP was once the party of the Moral Majority, but the white Christian Evangelicals have looked the other way, excusing their favored candidate of winning the award for his indecent behavior. They even see Trump as their Second Coming. My guess? The issue of abortion. On that one issue alone, the Moral Majority has become the  A-Moral Minority. https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-march-2024-abortion-in-the-2024-election-and-beyond/

An essay on Trump's contribution to American culture: indecency   https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/trumps-greatest-contribution-to.html