Arnon Grunberg

Bogeyman

Unconditional

And now something about the G.O.P. - Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin in NYT on anger and the establishment:

'Republicans increasingly worry that their base’s contempt for Mr. McConnell is more potent than its love for Mr. Trump. Mr. McConnell could be an anchor around incumbents in the same fashion as Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, who is routinely used to undermine Democratic candidates. The loudest applause Mr. Moore received during an election-eve rally came when he declared, “Mitch McConnell needs to be replaced.”

In a memo about the Alabama election that circulated among Republican donors, Steven Law, president of the Senate Leadership Fund, a “super PAC” closely allied with Mr. McConnell, said primary voters were intensely angry and inclined to blame Republicans for dysfunction in Washington.

“The Republican Congress has replaced President Obama as the bogeyman for conservative G.O.P. primary voters,” Mr. Law wrote, cautioning that the president was helping to amplify that point of view: “This narrative is driven by Trump himself, and it resonates with primary voters who believe the Republican Congress ‘isn’t doing enough’ (as we frequently heard in focus groups) to advance the president’s agenda.”'

Read the article here.

The anger among voters in Alabama may not differ very much from the anger among male voters in Saxony, Germany stronghold of the AfD.
Probably voters in Alabama have better reasons, from an economical and rational point of view, than voters in Saxony. And unlike the angry voters in Germany many angry voters in the US, especially in states like Alabama, love Jesus. They love Jesus more than their own wallet. Now that's unconditional love.

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