I recently heard a Christian brother commenting on the
current political situation. He said:
You know, when we elect a president we don’t elect a pastor. So, we’re going to have an unregenerate person. ... You know, you can have a good character president, and a failed policy, or you can have a president who has a character that raises questions and still have policies that promote well-being in the citizenry.
I don’t think it was this brother’s intention to do so, but
he presented a false dichotomy. It’s not that we can only have good character
plus bad policies on the one hand, or bad character plus good policies on the
other. There are also two feet involved: bad character plus bad policies (which
I firmly believe is what we would have had under Hillary Clinton), and good
character plus good policies, which I believe is what most of us actually want. The fact that we were faced in the 2016 election with the two "hands" doesn’t mean that we should just settle for that and not strive for the right "foot."
