That’s why a good preacher is worth more than fifty bureaucrats and politicians. Five hundred. Five thousand.
Aye, that it is. And that’s why “conservative activism” will never - NEVER - bring about the restoration that all these constertooshunal conservatives say they want to see. Trusting in politics is a fool’s game. The best we can hope for from politics is a few people who will slow the tide enough that culture and religion working from the bottom up can bring about real changes to hearts and minds, not cosmetic changes applied from above, and do so with enough time left to actually mean something.
The great error of the Ted Cruz-style constertooshunal conservatives has been an overly active trust in the present political system, and believing that their messiah - Ted Cruz - could somehow take it over from the inside and effect some sort of political salvation.
But there is no salvation in politics. There’s only buying time.
Unless America turns back to God, even the time we’d manage to buy with a Donald Trump presidency will merely have been wasted.