Religious Angle On Trump, 'Man Of Destiny'

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This newsletter has added a batch of new subscribers since my Free Press piece ran. One of them said, “Um, are these dispatches always so long?” Yeah, they are. This is called “Rod Dreher’s Diary,” and it’s a daily compendium of things I’m thinking about today, and find interesting. I don’t necessarily agree with everything I post here, but it’s kind of…