There is, indeed, a “poverty of spirit” at work with the Trump supporters and in the Republican Party.
But it’s not found among poor people, or among the disabled, or in struggling rural and inner-city communities.
The real poverty of spirit lives in the boardrooms and living rooms of Trump supporting, Republican-backing CEOs, who reward themselves with record increases in their own compensation while the rest of the country suffers.
It lives in the tortured, self-justifying and selfish logic of Ben Carson, Mick Mulvaney, and Adrian Smith.
It lives in the sanctimonious sensitivity of Tucker Carlson and in that gelatinous embodiment of orgiastic self-indulgence that is popular vote loser, Donald Trump.
And it lives in the Republican Party, the members of which gives these spiritually impoverished impulses a home.
Resist.