Flags Out Front

by Douglas Wilson

These were people who just hated being led by trimmers and compromisers, and whose leaders always trimmed and compromised because that is what they thought the people were demanding. They had been let down time and over again by countless leaders who either drifted off into neoevangelical liberalism like a child’s lost carnival balloon, or who blew up in the old-school conservative fashion via sexual scandals. If ever confronted with the possibility of actual battle over the permanent things, they always found a way to avoid it. They could always preach a good sermon about it, denouncing a number of wicked persons elsewhere. But nothing ever seemed to change, perhaps because none of the culprits were ever present.