David French Endorses Texas Democrat James Talarico

The debasement of David French, the once prominent writer in Conservative Inc., to an advocate for transgenderism has been something to behold. This apostacizing was so obvious that even the Presbyterian Church in America canceled his appearance in 2024 to their General Assembly. Now, David French is promoting the Democrat Party’s biggest fake Christian since Pete Buttigieg.

In his latest Sunday column in the New York Times, David French pens a glowing review over James Talatico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas. Titled, “James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray,” David French heaps praises on the pro-sodomy, pro-abortion, pro-replacement politician.

Talarico is a 36-year-old Texas state representative and the Democratic Party’s latest and greatest hope for winning its first statewide election there in more than 30 years.
He’s also one of the most faith-forward politicians in the United States.

Talarico doesn’t just root his policies and ideology in his Christian beliefs, he’s a seminarian willing to dive deep into theology. When he’s arguing with the religious right about, say, Christian nationalism, he makes a specifically Christian argument to counter a poisonous Christian movement.

“Jesus liberates,” Talarico said in a sermon in 2023. “Christian nationalism controls. Jesus saves. Christian nationalism kills. Jesus started a universal movement based on mutual love. Christian nationalism is a sectarian movement based on mutual hate.”

The same thing applies to his discussions about specific government policies. Just as Christian conservatives often root their arguments about immigration and abortion in Scripture, so does Talarico.

For example, in an interview with my colleague Ezra Klein, Talarico criticized the evangelical focus on abortion and homosexuality in politics. “It’s remarkable to me,” Talarico said, “that you have an entire political movement using Christianity to prioritize two issues that Jesus never talked about.”

David French endorses Talarico’s faith, contrasting him with the dreaded Christian Nationalists. French’s political analysis that Talarico can win statewide in Texas is laughable, in light of Beto O’Rourke who did not openly hate White people. But it is Talarico’s opposition to Christian Nationalism that has David French most enthralled.

Talarico isn’t just making arguments. He’s giving people hope, and I think I know why.

Put simply, if the primary American divide is between right and left, then Talarico isn’t that interesting. There’s a long history of progressive religious activism in the United States, just as there is a long history of conservative religious activism. White evangelicals might be overwhelmingly Republican, but American Christians are remarkably diverse politically, and we’ve been arguing with one another for a long time.

 

Yet if the primary American divide is between decent and indecent, then the equation changes. Talarico shines.

David French conflates being nice with good character. And that James Talarico openly supports transgendering children is suddenly not a reflection of his character because he’s “not mean” to people like David French. David French is a man who loves being liked by the world and got the bag at the New York Times.

If you can be nice about speaking wickedness, David French will gush over you over the person who uses biblical language to describe sin. It’s not any deeper than that, if you want to be praised by French.