Retribution nation

Today's New York Times:

Why MAGA Nation Embraces Trump

To the Editor:

David Brooks takes a good stab at understanding the tensions between Enlightenment values and religiously grounded social mores, but the one thing he doesn’t explain is how those who think we need a return to a more “religious” moral center are completely enthralled by the likes of Donald Trump, who, whatever else you can say about him, never expresses anything in word or deed that would suggest he has any moral grounding at all. 

I know of no religious tradition that features revenge as a central moral tenet.

Ken Blickenstaff

Danville, Kentucky