Strange Passion: the Pure Evil of Republicanism

Trump and the Republicans are descending into the throes of pure evil, a strange passion. At its core is compulsion and compulsion is dehumanizing, as evidenced by addiction. People are only distinct from being animals by being free and accountable.

In religious terms compulsion is the loss of a soul. Greed and power-lust are their compelling addictions and are the devil's sin--coveting the power and glory of God. Fatalism, as promoted by Calvinism, is similarly demeaning and dehumanizing.

These are the components of the Republican "base"--those who are degraded and corrupted by greed and the lust for power, and fatalistic, religious conservatives, those who believe in predestination and long for the end-times. The end-times are here.

Thanks to them. The fruit of their tree is death.