Being worried about the impending destruction of humanity is nothing new to Rick Santorum, evangelical Christian and perennial Republican presidential candidate. While typically polling toward the bottom of the field, Santorum often tells primary voters about the “slippery slope” of one liberal policy or another. This morning, while appearing on CNN, Santorum said that he is now worried about something else, and it has everything to do with President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
“I’m just really worried about all this focus on Mexicans and Mexico. How much room for hating the gays will Republican voters have if they’re exhausted from hating Mexicans and other immigrants,” Santorum asked rhetorically.
Santorum says he’s worried about all the focus on undocumented immigration because all the focus is being funneled to demagoguing Mexicans instead of more traditionally GOP-despised groups, like the LGBT community.
“Hating, disenfranchising, abusing and oppressing gay people,” Santorum told reporters, “was a rock-solid pillar of our Republican institution for years, and now one blowhard reality TV star comes on the scene and we have to stop focusing on that and start focusing on disenfranchising, abusing, and oppressing another group?”
The former Pennsylvania Senator is also worried, he says, about whether his party’s base can split their hatred focus between too many groups, arguing that, “We’re Republicans; we can’t focus on too many things at once!”
“Why do you think three years later we’re still talking about Benghazi and we’re still trying to repeal Obamacare,” Santorum asked. “We don’t focus on anything but one, maybe two issues at a time, three if you count abortion, but that’s it. Gays, abortions and Obamacare — that’s the triumvirate of Republican ideology that Trump is steering us far, far away from.”
Santorum said “it’s long past time American patriots ignore the Supreme Court and the Constitution” and “make this country the theocracy it was always meant to be.”
“Just because the Supreme Court says we have to stop pretending we live in the 1950’s,” Santorum said, “that doesn’t mean we actually have to. I mean, look at abortion rights. The courts made a reasoned decision that took into account the medical viability of a developing life form and marked that as the point for which abortion should be illegal — a compromise that most reasonable people understand — and we religious conservatives have rabidly fought against that for forty years. So we need to fight against treating LGBT people like regular humans just as voraciously.”
Santorum cautioned conservatives not to think he was “soft on illegals,” either.
“Don’t get me wrong, as a hypocritical Christian, I have zero problem advocating throwing people who came here just for a better life, to escape poverty and corruption back to the wolves. I have no problem with treating immigrants like criminals, no matter how much the religious texts I profess to follow tell me to do otherwise,” Santorum explained. “If I were president, I would ride up on a horse like George Washington and personally kick every Mexican out if they couldn’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance, in perfect English. But I just want us to focus first on crushing the onslaught of gay people demanding fair and equal treatment under the law — as if that’s a thing we care about in this country — first.”
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