{"id":116918,"date":"2022-12-01T12:09:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116918"},"modified":"2022-12-01T18:14:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T23:14:03","slug":"terry-mattingly-a-marvin-olasky-flashback-back-to-the-evangelical-clashes-over-character-and-two-party-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116918","title":{"rendered":"(Terry Mattingly) a Marvin Olasky flashback: Back to the evangelical clashes over character and two-party politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2016, Olasky noted that opposing Trump was risky: &#8220;Our call for a different Republican candidate will lose us some readers and donors.&#8221; Then in 2021, Trump-era tensions played a major role in his exit at World, after serving as editor for nearly three decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people continue to stress that we are electing a president, not a preacher,&#8221; said Olasky. &#8220;I am also aware that God can do many things outside the limitations of what I think about all of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Olasky stands by his views in &#8220;The American Leadership Tradition&#8221; about fidelity and character.      &#8220;From my selfish point of view,&#8221; he added, &#8220;the whole Trump era has been a vindication of that book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmatt.net\/columns\/2022\/11\/28\/olasky-flashback-back-to-the-evangelical-clashes-over-character-and-two-party-politics\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Olasky flashback: Back to the evangelical clashes over character and two-party politics <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U6f27LOBeB\">https:\/\/t.co\/U6f27LOBeB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Terry Mattingly (@tweetmattingly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tweetmattingly\/status\/1597306980648878080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2016, Olasky noted that opposing Trump was risky: &#8220;Our call for a different Republican candidate will lose us some readers and donors.&#8221; Then in 2021, Trump-era tensions played a major role in his exit at World, after serving<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116918\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,168,419,133,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116922,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116918\/revisions\/116922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}