{"id":17958,"date":"2016-11-14T03:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T03:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17958"},"modified":"2016-11-14T03:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T03:39:48","slug":"gay-marriage-where-trump-and-gop-base-part-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17958","title":{"rendered":"Gay marriage, where Trump and GOP base part company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here it comes.<\/p>\n

The millions of Republican voters who stood by their man, Donald J. Trump, during the acrid presidential campaign might be feeling the first of many pangs of regret over one of their guy’s core beliefs.<\/p>\n

Trump has told “60 Minutes” correspondent Leslie Stahl that gay marriage is the law of the land and that he’s “fine” with that. The U.S. Supreme Court decided it, legalized gay marriage in all the states. The issue is done, said Trump — quite correctly. There, you see? I actually can<\/em> say something complimentary of the president-elect.<\/p>\n

I almost could hear the teeth-gnashing\u00a0while sitting in\u00a0my study at home when he said that.<\/p>\n

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Do you think the president-elect has upset those among his base, the folks who stood by him while he insulted prisoners of war, mocked a disabled reporter, admitted to groping women, denigrated a Gold Star family?<\/p>\n

All of those things, taken separately, should have been enough to disqualify this guy from being nominated by a major political party, let alone from being elected president.<\/p>\n

The GOP base — the true believers — stood by the nominee despite not even understanding what he believed.<\/p>\n

Trump has vowed to appoint a conservative to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The court, though, has settled the gay marriage issue, citing the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and its “equal protection under the law” clause.<\/p>\n

Trump tonight has indicated — finally!<\/em> — that he understands the concept of “settled law.” The base of his party will be unhappy with the man they backed to the hilt.<\/p>\n\n

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Here it comes. The millions of Republican voters who stood by their man, Donald J. Trump, during the acrid presidential campaign might be feeling the first of many pangs of regret over one of their guy’s core beliefs. Trump has told “60 Minutes” correspondent Leslie Stahl that gay marriage is the law of the land … Continue reading Gay marriage, where Trump and GOP base part company<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[29,412,1863,2923,5043,5053],"class_list":["post-17958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-14th-amendment","tag-antonin-scalia","tag-gay-marriage","tag-marriage-equality","tag-us-constitution","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17960,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions\/17960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}