Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Pointless Mike Pence - American Thinker

Pointless Mike Pence - American Thinker - Jack Cashill 
In his narrative poem The Divine Comedy, 14th-century Italian sage Dante Alighieri reserved the ninth and deepest circle of his Inferno for those scoundrels who betrayed their comrades and leaders — Brutus, Cassius, Judas Iscariot, Satan himself.
A revised MAGA edition of The Divine Comedy might justifiably find space in that circle for people like Liz Cheney, Gen. Mark Kelly, and the editorial staff of The Bulwark. 
Although many would put former vice president Mike Pence in there as well, I would not.
  • I would argue for a lower circle still, a tenth circle. 
Although Dante did not say, as alleged, “The darkest places of hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis,” someone did, and it makes sense. 
After all, one can respect the traitor for taking a stand, however evil. 
  • But it is hard to respect those who, in times of moral crisis, sit on their hands...

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