Jesus said to his followers, “You are the salt of the earth,” to literally preserve the important things that sustain and undergird human societies. This is a quality that conservatives often admire—keeping cohesion and positive communal values intact and formative like the glue that often holds things together, values such as honesty, integrity, compassion, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, and dedication to raising our children in ways that are good and right and for the sake of service to others.
That is an amazing sentiment considering that President Trump is the antithesis of every one of those qualities.
