<u+201c>a vote for donald trump is not necessarily a vote for donald trump himself. it is a vote for those who will be affected by the results of this election . not to vote is to vote. god will not hold us guiltless,<u+201d> writes author eric metaxas in our pages today . <u+201c>donald trump has declared himself unshackled from the republican party and says he will now campaign as he<u+2019>s wanted to all along,<u+201d> notes a journal editorial . <u+201c>the self-declared strategy has the virtue of putting the onus of victory or defeat squarely where it belongs: mr. trump and those who led him to the gop nomination .<u+201d> ...our columnist daniel henninger adds , <u+201c>it was never in the cards that donald trump, an utterly unique phenomenon, would integrate his interests with the interests of the republican party.<u+201d> karl rove writes , <u+201c>if mr. trump wants a republican senate to approve his nominees and a republican house to pass his agenda, then he should give gop candidates the freedom to do what they must to win. almost every one of them is polling ahead of him. he needs their coattails to get to the white house. <u+201d> <u+201c>it<u+2019>s no secret that progressive elites despise religion , but it<u+2019>s still striking to see their contempt expressed so bluntly as in the leaked email chains that include clinton campaign chairman john podesta, <u+201d> writes the editorial board . <u+201c>to the progressives who dominate american culture and politics, anti-christian views are the most socially acceptable form of bigotry .<u+201d> <u+201c>the political class got its second ritual sacrifice for the sins of wells fargo , as the bank<u+2019>s chairman and ceo john stumpf resigned wednesday,<u+201d> notes a separate editorial . he and the bank are paying the price for management error, <u+201c>showing again the accountability that exists in the private economy . the same can<u+2019>t be true for the regulators at the consumer financial protection bureau who didn<u+2019>t stop wells<u+2019>s problems and merely shot the wounded after they came to light. a bureaucrat<u+2019>s job is forever. <u+201d> stephen entin has run the numbers on trump and clinton plans for the estate tax. <u+201c>mr. trump<u+2019>s plan would deliver on his growth objective. everyone would gain. mrs. clinton<u+2019>s plan would not so much redistribute wealth as destroy it. everyone would lose except estate lawyers and life insurers,<u+201d> concludes mr. entin .
how would jesus vote? - wsj
james freeman