Kansas City Talker Dana Wright Shares Viral Anti-MAGA Screed

A recent social media post from KMBZ daytime talker Dana Wright might be the most popular "long form" content Kansas City news watchers have witness so far this year. 

The missive was inspired by President Donald Trump’s widely condemned reaction to Robert Mueller’s death.  

However . . .

Even after most news watchers have already forgotten the inciting incident, we think the note deserves a glance for a couple of reasons . . .

- Remember that not so long ago KMBZ was Kansas City's leading conservative news radio station but over recent years "Dana & Parks" have pivoted to suburban "lifestyle" chat with marked disdain for MAGA politics. 

- Again . . . The era of the newspaper municipal columnists has passed into history. Sure, Dana Wright's tirade is clunky, saccharine and mostly devoid of any clever political insight but readers seem to enjoy it nevertheless.  Once again social media seems to be leading "the discourse" amongst the few people who might be persuaded to read a 1,600 work polemic. 

And so . . .

Here's the premise of her criticism against President Trump and his MAGA movement . . .  

"This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.

"That is what is happening. That is what has happened."

And here's what might be her most salient passage where she also takes aim at clergy who support the Prez: 

"America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.

"And the church said nothing.

"Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.

"Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him . . ."

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