Cardinal Timothy Dolan enabled the Republican presidential candidate to cast himself as a saintly martyr saved by God
Donald Trump and his wife Melania at the Al Smith charity dinner in New York last Thursday with Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Democratic senator Chuck Schumer. Photograph: Hiroko Masuike/New York Times
Dolan could have stood up and told Trump “Enough!” We have been longing for that voice of authority who could deliver the Joseph Welch line – “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” – to our modern Joe McCarthy. It is the church’s job, after all, to teach right from wrong. The gregarious four-term governor of New York believed deeply in lifting up the less fortunate, and in America’s founding principles. Emotionally devastated after helping investigate theAnti-Catholic bigotry destroyed his presidential bid in 1928, and he hated bigotry of all kinds. He early on decried lynching, racial violence, the Ku Klux Klan and Naziism. He would have detested Trump, a bigot cynically stoking racial fears and bloodthirsty impulses to get elected.
Trump is proudly amoral. He disdains the Christian values I was taught by nuns and priests. His only values are self-interest and self-gratification. He has replaced a code of ethics with the Narcissus pool. The echoes of McCarthyism reverberated when Trump was asked at a town hall whether he really believed the debunked story that Haitian immigrants were eating neighbours’ cats and dogs. “I was just saying what has been reported,” an unrepentant Trump replied. “All I do is report.”
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