Anyone who has read my poem “Jesus Was an Ass-Kicker” knows that very little about today’s GOP can shock me. And yet, Michelle Goldberg has done it. In a column in today’s NYT, she argues that the race for the Republican nomination is a battle between a man who wants to impose Christian orthodoxy on the country and a man whose followers see him as a new messiah, unbound by rules created by the establishment in the past.
To put it in historical terms, this is a fight between a wannabe Jesus and Torquemada. The scary thing is that Goldberg is probably right.