THE VITAL ORDINARY JOES

   Rex Murphy:  There’s a guy down in Minnesota named Mike Lindell who runs a successful company called MyPillow. He’s a strong Christian who used to be a drug addict, but managed to turn things around in his personal life and build a successful company. In the heat of the current pandemic, he answered the call from U.S. President Donald Trump for private businesses to throw in their hand with government efforts and assist in whatever way they can.
    Lindell, who’s an ordinary sort of fellow, ordered his company to stop making pillows and start producing face masks. This was a big turnaround that was done at emergency speed. It took MyPillow workers a mere three days to turn a 200,000-square-foot factory into a facility that produces masks. Wow.

   He’s at 10,000 per day and promises to bring production up to 50,000. It’s the kind of story that all of us could, perhaps even should, cheer. But Lindell, in his brief, three-minute remarks, also mentioned his faith and asked people to pray.     And praised President Trump.Christian faith, prayer, praise for Trump: there, my friends, is the trifecta of progressive unspeakables. Many of the grand sages of the TV panels, the Twitter Illuminati and the smug know-it-alls of the internet came down on him like a sledgehammer. They were scornful, supercilious and sublimely sarcastic.