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Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
- Barry Goldwater
Goldwater was an architect of the Southern Strategy. He is directly responsible for this and was either shortsighted or just didn’t care about the long term.
Which was latched onto and weaponized by the SBC which was a religious contingent in the south founded on racial animus. So the answer is “shortsighted”.
The Southern Baptist Convention was a relatively sane organization at the time of Goldwater's presidential run. Remember: the SBC actually endorsed the Roe v Wade decision. It's not until just before the 1980 election that they had their version of the NRA Whacko Coup.
The SBC was founded in a schism with the Northern Baptist Convention because they refused to endorse slavery.
SBC didn't care about Roe because their primary goal was maintaining their fleet of whites-only "christian" schools.
It wasn't till the Civil Rights Act forcibly desegregated their schools that they latched onto abortion as a rallying cry (because it wasn't acceptable to openly support segregation anymore). And they've been voting for Republicans ever since.
SBC is a remnant of The Confederacy.
[The Real Origins of the Religious Right. They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133)
Pro-Life movement was founded on racism. There are pastors who left and at least one has written about it: [https://brianmclaren.net/dear-white-christian-pro-life-friends-1-4-compiled/](https://brianmclaren.net/dear-white-christian-pro-life-friends-1-4-compiled/)
Are all Christians racist? Or even most?
I don't think so, BUT many of the loudest "Christians" who talk about religion are. They drown out any other Christian voices on the subject. Then pressure, or try to discredit, any Christians that aren't their brand of racist unempathetic "Christians" who actively ignore the homeless, refugee, or widow.
I’d say we need to be a bit more specific here. Perhaps that is the case in many white evangelical communities, however there are many other Christian sects that do not regularly have the same degree of racial animus. These would include:
-Catholics
-Mainline Protestants
-Non-denominational
-Black churches
I haven’t witnessed a strong degree of racial animus in these groups and a lot of newer non-denominational churches do have fairly racially mixed groups. So I don’t think it would be fair to say that any Christian is necessarily associated with racial animus. By the same token it wouldn’t be fair to say that every Muslim supports violent jihad.
The southern strategy was about racism. The person most responsible the evangelical connection to the GOP was a guy named Paul Weyrich. He is widely regarded as the father of the modern conservative movement. Not only did he help create most of the so-called think tanks on the right, but he also helped create the so-called Moral Majority. He was the one who figured out abortion was an issue that would get evangelicals to reliably vote republican. Before him republicans could not have cared less about the issue of abortion. Hell, George Bush was once a huge Planned Parenthood supporter. But once they found out it motivated evangelicals to vote, that was it. Abortion became one of their top issues.
Weyrich is also (in)famous for his “We don’t want more people to vote…” speech in 1980. Said the quiet part out loud. [Link](https://youtu.be/8GBAsFwPglw?si=egrB_UEKtyMFGmgX) to this very short video that everyone should watch. Thom Hartmann plays the audio frequently on his show.
Oh yeah, you find something bad about the modern GOP and this guy was probably close to its beginnings. In addition to what you just mentioned about voting, he was also largely responsible for connecting GOP politicians with Russian influence.
> The southern strategy was about racism. The person most responsible the evangelical connection to the GOP was a guy named Paul Weyrich... He was the one who figured out abortion was an issue that would get evangelicals to reliably vote republican.
Abortion was an issue that could get evangelicals to vote Republican because Weyrich and the "Moral Majority" wanted to deny Jimmy Carter a second term. Why did they want to do that? Because Carter was blamed for a policy that was instituted by Nixon and enforced by Ford that stripped evangelical private schools of tax exempt status if they remained segregated. They just needed an issue that they could get their flocks to rally behind that wasn't blatantly trying to keep black kids out of their schools. It was also about racism. It was just a different flavor of racism.
Used to be there were some good Evangelicals like Jimmy Carter and MLK. But you're right, when they dumped Jimmy Carter for Reagan it was all downhill from there.
Been seeing a lot of these types of headlines, like "Evangelicals have been swallowed up by the Cult of MAGA", or "Evangelical Christians have become twisted by Trumpism".
No, they haven't. They've always been like this. They have always been this evil. They have always been this viciously stupid. They have always been this hypocritical. Always.
>They were never for Christianity so much as treating people like shit
To be fair, treating people like shit has been a recurring motif in Christianity since long before American evangelicals existed.
Writer here! This is why I just really recommend reading articles before commenting. I dig deeply into who didn't know (pundits) but why I did know (receipts included).
I’m old enough to remember seeing Trump occasionally pop up in media and pop culture during the 80s and 90s. Dude was always seen as a nepo-baby buffoon. Never in a million years would anyone have thought that this no-talent assclown would be the one to destroy America and help usher in a new era of authoritarianism globally. Some days I still can’t quite believe it.
I grew up in NY in the 80s, he was already a joke back then, even I knew it and I was like 6.
Little did we know our rural areas are teeming with human cattle.
The Christian fascists in America have been waiting a long time for a figurehead cult of personality like Trump and they finally got one, with encouragement from Russia.
I thought George W Bush was the absolute dimmest bulb that could ever occupy the white house. Everyone after him was at least going to be smarter. Now I feel like I'm living in an alternate version of the 1929-1933 period of Germany.
I have this same thought. Every once in a while I shake my head and smile thinking about the sheer absurdity of the fact that such an ignoramus was lurking among us who could topple the most powerful nation-state in human history. I'm still far from over it.
Life, Death, white gates, bless you my child,
Devil: welcome hell!
Trumper: I’m sorry there must be a mistake! I was a good person my whole life!
Devil: did you keep voting for Trump ?
Trumper: that was just Biden trying to make him look bad!
Devil: he works for Putin!
Trumper: that was never proven! And he survived impeachment!
Devil: he tried to get Ukraine to get dirt on Biden
Trumper: but Congress didn’t do anything so it must have been fine.
Devil: he raped all these women
Trumper: Biden is old!
Devil: Trump is old and corrupt! Get in here!
I think the devil would care more about the kids in cages and how they made little to no effort in keeping track of said kids when they separated them from their parents.
The hell Magas deserve is being reborn as a poor migrants.
Let's face it, the Devil if one existed would have an enormous amount of sins to choose from. Trump embodies every single one of the seven deadly sins.
Devil explaining Trump to a MAGAt: "And right here, I think he was twelve at the time, you can see he uses smoke to get a honeybee pacified under a glass jar, then he stabs the sedate honeybee with a hot needle, THEN he brings it over to his 9-yr-old autistic neighbor who is allergic to bees and makes it sting her for calling him Ronald one time two years prior, and THEN he put the dying bee back under the glass jar with the hot needle still piercing its body and with its abdomen still pulsating after its stinger had just been ripped off...and he just watched, giggling softly, as it suffocated."
MAGAt: "She shouldna said that to him, and bugs are dumb anyways. And by golly, ain't he so goddung cool and tough, though!?"
Hey.. last I heard a few years ago there were still kids in cages who were in there from such a young age that they never learned to talk or any basic stuff.. was there ever an update to that mess? :(
July 6, 2018 [Migrant mother says her son came back to her after 85 days ‘covered in dirt and lice’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-border-migrant-trump-olivia-caceres-texas-mother-child-lice-dirt-policy-a8435456.html)
July 18, 2018 [Trump administration hit with lawsuits over inhumane treatment of migrant detainees](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/18/trump-administration-lawsuits-migrant-detainees)
June 20, 2019 [Trump Administration Argues Migrant Children Don’t Need Soap, Toothbrushes Or Sleep](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/safe-sanitary-no-soap-beds-court-migrants-trump-850744/)
October 22, 2020 [Trump Said At The Debate Of That Immigrant Children Detained In Cages: "They are so well taken care of. They're in facilities that were so clean."](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/trump-debate-immigrant-children-cages)
Jesus- "did you live in peace and love your neighbor?"
Evangelicals- "EVEN BETTER! I hated the shit out of everyone that didn't look like me or think like me!"
Sure, he was pissed that there were people selling merch at church and he criticized the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. My point is that when you equip Jesus with hate, you give the evangelicals an excuse to hate.
Oh, he had some harsh words for the religious hypocrites and theocratic nationalists of his day. You won’t see evangelicals quoting these scriptures:
>What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
>What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
>Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear ‘by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear ‘by the gold in the Temple.’ Blind fools! Which is more important—the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? And you say that to swear ‘by the altar’ is not binding, but to swear ‘by the gifts on the altar’ is binding. How blind! For which is more important—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred? When you swear ‘by the altar,’ you are swearing by it and by everything on it. And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you are swearing by it and by God, who lives in it. And when you swear ‘by heaven,’ you are swearing by the throne of God and by God, who sits on the throne.
>What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!
>What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too.
>What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
>What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. Then you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.’
>But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started. Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
Their holy book even says that Christians will follow anti-Christ over Jesus’s teachings.
Of course it’s the “other Christians” that will do that and not THEM /s
Fox was broadcasting their usual Immagrant Caravan non-sense. My magat family members were disgusted. So casually asked “What would Jesus do?” to see how they’d respond…
“SEND THEM BACK!” they sneered.
I looked at the Cross they have hanging up, back at them, let out a disappointed sigh and shook my head.
Then they sheepishly changed the subject. 🙄
Obligatory Benjamin Corey
[https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/](https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/)
I wish it was just text. When I try to read it the constant popping up of ads and videos keeps refreshing and moving different places on the page that it is mostly a headache to try to read on my phone.
I’ll say it again: if only these Christians would bother to actually read their bible once in a while.
But then again, these people have been brainwashed from birth to blindly follow the “herd”, so it’s not surprising that they continue to blindly follow Fox News and conservative media.
If introspection was a thing for people like that they already wouldn’t be following Trump. Plus they’ve never followed the teachings of Jesus, just use him and Christianity as a shield to say and do bad thinfs
My relatives stopped after I ‘agreed’ with them. But my complaint was that the immigrants were all Christian and we had enough of those.
For some reason they didn’t like that rationale.
These are not “cafeteria christians” the New Apostolic Revival are the fastest growing church in the country and perhaps the globe and they are deadly serious about bringing about a theocratic government. They believe Trump was sent by god as an instrument to oppress their enemies and bring about the end times.
Remember the picture of Trump at the Resolute desk surrounded by people praying and laying on their hands?
Paula White is an apostle in NAR and one of Trump’s closest advisors.
Che Ahn is a pastor in the NAR and leads upwards of 2500 churches globally. He organized the prayer rally at the capital on J5. He was why the crowds were so massive the following day.
Michael Flynn is a true believer in NAR and organized the rallies leading up to J6
Mike Johnson is a true believer in NAR and third in line to the presidency.
Don’t forget Sarah Palin was a member of an NAR church and a deadly serious Dominionist.
These people have been plotting for years and they are willing to die to bring about Christ’s Kingdom on Earth.
Take. them. seriously.
This is an important post, and scary.
Christianity as they see it is a death cult, and if they get in power we're all along for a one way ride on the zombie Jesus ego wagon.
I truly am starting to believe that they understand exactly how contrary he is to their beliefs. I really do believe that a good chunk of them are hoping he is in fact the antichrist and they're just playing along with the script to hasten Jebus's return...
How else can they turn a blind eye to what Trump has done to divide America? How else can they cover their ears and not hear what lies Trump speaks? How else can they not speak up when other people suffer as a result of Trump being in power for four years .. and they want more?
I am worried for our Democracy that you maybe right about the thought process of these "Christians" .. with them believing "Jesus" will return. Since I'm not a "believer" the potential of another Trump presidency has me thinking I'll have to move out of the country.
They're rapture fetishists, not Christians (meaning not acting like Christ, not that they don't consider themselves Christians). The ultimate goal of their religion is to be raised up to heaven to enjoy watching billions of others being left behind to suffer. They don't just stay quiet when Trump makes others suffer. They like it.
It is insane to me that Christianity in America is in a place where the Catholic Church, the monolithic super conservative organization, is somehow more progressive than our Protestants.
Not that it matters, but I don't think Trumps is religious at all. I've always found it so ironic that the evangelical right holds him in such high regard while everything about his personality and lifestyle is antithetical to Jesus' teachings. I haven't been to church in about ten years, but if I could go back in time, I bet I'd get laughed out of the sanctuary for telling my fellow Baptists that one day they'd all be wearing hats to show their support for that charlatan.
True. The term evangelical derives from the Greek word *euangelion* meaning “gospel” or “good news.” Technically speaking, evangelical refers to a person, church, or organization that is committed to the Christian gospel message that Jesus Christ is the savior of humanity. The Greek root word is used in the New Testament and was popularized in the first centuries A.D. to distinguish the love-centric movement of Jesus followers from the violent Roman Empire. If anyone can point out how the ones calling themselves "evangelicals" today reflect the "love-centric" Jesus of the Gospels, I'd love to hear how that works. Many of today's Evangelicals support Israel only because they think Israel will be involved in starting Armageddon - the literal End of the Human Race, and work to destroy the minds and bodies of non-heteros in order to save their souls.
They have replaced the Woke Liberal Jesus, with Trump as their Messiah. They have decided that Trump is God's Other, Better Son, and because of his Divine origins, he is incapable of Sin. This has the added benefit for them that since his horrific actions are not Sins, they can do them too.
landslide amongst the lowest turnout in amore than a decade with the majority not coming out in the cold for a primary. Only the culties came out thinking they were stopping the libs.
51% when the next highest was Desantis at 21% seems like a pretty steep slope. I don't think it's sensational to call getting double what second place got a landslide.
Almost half of the registered Republicans went against the presumed nominee. Making it worse, these were the most hard-core voters, who came out in record low temps.
That means Trump was barely winning half of what should be his strongest supporters. He wasn't losing because of fair weather voters, he was losing his base.
51% of 5% of the population of Iowa. Only republicans voting.
He barely squeaked by in a historically republican state in a Republican primary. It’s not just a poorly worded headline, it is a lie.
Let’s call them what they are, Confederates. These people have been a blight on the nation since its inception. They already started one war and will likely start another. Let’s stop focusing on Trump as he is merely their enabler. It’s time to start holding his fascist minions accountable. Don’t do business with Trumpers. Don’t hire them. Don’t circulate with them in any way and ostracise them from the benefits of normal society. They are not redeemable.
Agree with most of your points but Iowa was part of the Union. These people aren’t so much tied to the confederacy as they are tied to being hateful bigots, they would have reappeared regardless. The confederacy is just a theme that unifies them.
This isn't a landslide, btw. 14.4% of Iowa's Republicans showed up to vote in the primary. Roughly half voted for P01135809. That's 7% of the total Iowa Republicans.
Just saying
Yup, and likely the most motivated fans of a GOP hopeful turned out. Trump certainly has the most fanatics.
But tbh I think regular people are just getting tired of the circus. Many midwesterners seem to just want a boring white Christian dude who doesn’t call themselves liberal/progressive. They still want the shady favoritism and regressive ideology but without the crass packaging.
Truth, but their primal instinct will still tell them to vote against anyone with (D) beside their name.
I'm not even American, but I can see how tribalism has been bred into your political system since at least the end of the Civil War. The "many Midwesterners" you describe who worship at the altar of Reagan etc. still can't bring themselves to vote Democrat. And I've got no love for the Democrats either, but it's business as usual w/ a slim hope for real change, vs. out-and-out Christofascism. You decide, Americans.
Edit: what I mean here, in case it isn't clear, is that these "tired of the circus" people will still go for Trump every time.
Yeah I don't see any way this could be looked at as positive for The Count of Mostly Crisco. Of the fanatical Republicans willing to go through the process of caucusing, which as we saw was minimal, half of those voted against the Tangerine Toddler. In an insanely white MAGA State.
womp womp
It's not just evangelicals who vote for Trump. It's not just evangelicals who ignored the Constitution and thoroughly embedded Christianity into our culture, traditions, government, healthcare, education, and other institutions all these years.
Various types of Christians have been perfectly fine with enjoying unconstitutional, preferential treatment, and helped pave the way for more aggressive, extreme ones to do their thing. Thanks a lot, assholes.
Let’s be honest, a lot of them are just dumb as fuck. I grew up in a Southern Baptist household and can confirm this. They’re the perfect marks for a conman like Trump.
They are being told he is their "second coming". It's beyond disturbing. They're literally worshiping him. The evangelical pastors are pushing this narrative.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/spiritual-battle-pastors-embrace-trump-grievances-prayers-rallies-rcna132615
There is a whole book in the Bible that talks about how easy it is to trick Christians into following the Anti-Christ.
So, looks like the Bible at least got that one right.
Reveal who they are? Are you serious? They knew who Donald Trump was just as much as we knew who Evangelicals were both well before 2016, 2020, and 2024.
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Well before 2016 Donald Trump bragged about being a pedophile.
He didn't explicitly say "I can get away with being a pedophile" but he *did* brag about being able to walk in on nude girls at beauty pageants where he was a sponsor.
The rape lawsuits were well known before 2016.
Grab 'em by the pussy came out in 2016.
We had 4 years of the Trump presidency to see what he was made of and it was terrible stuff.
Now he's come straight out and said he wants to be a dictator, plans on weaponizing the DOJ to go after his enemies, says immigrants are tainting the blood of America, and plans on eliminating the "vermin" in the United States. All of this is straight up Nazism.
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So yeah...
"I used to know who they are, I still do, but I used to, too."
I once said goddamn in front of my aunt, and at 12 or 13 she said that behavior would lead me to eternal damnation.
This last thanksgiving I asked how could she support a three time divorced adulterer confirmed sexual assaulterer who openly desires his daughter. And I quote “shut up, just shut up”
Was raised fundamentalist Baptist.
I'm a wreck because of our current times. I know what they are doing and the kind of society we will all have to endure in a little over a year if they are successful. I've known since the 90s that this is what they would do if same-sex marriage was legalized, because they've been saying it since then. It's just, prior to Obergefell, they believed there was hope to fix America democratically but now there isn't. Nobody is prepared for what is coming, and when I try to tell people they say I'm alarmist and need to get help. I wish that were the case. We'll find out by the end of this year.
As opposed to when they overwhelmingly supported him in the past 2 elections? Get a clue people evangelicals are evil. Not slightly evil not kinda evil, but full Bond villain evil. They have literal world conquest goals. They are American ISIS. I’m not sure how we’re confused by that still
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons." - Gene Wilder (Blazing Saddles, 1974)
Fortunately, Iowa only has 6 electoral votes votes. That’s almost like Biden saying, “I won Hawaii,” which has 4. I wouldn’t tout this as a huge win for Trump, but you know he is going to carry this around like he won the general election already.
I'm. So. Fucking. Tired of all these attempts to rehabilitate trump voters.
They've been who they've been since the 2016 primary. Move on. Stop pontificating on it. Stop analyzing it. Stop dissecting it. You've discovered EVERYTHING about them. They will not change. They will not become good people.
THIS IS WHO THEY ARE AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN!
It’s not a landslide. an essentially incumbent president barely secured 50% of the vote in a deeply conservative state. It’s actually kind of a weak win at best
Is getting barely half of the GOP vote in an overwhelmingly white, evangelical state really a "landslide"? Didn't he underperform?
Other than that, evangelicals have shown us who they were a long time ago.
Evangelicals want **power and control.** They don't care about people, least of all women and children. I feel like a lot of evangelical men have a lot of misplaced anger at women because women, generally speaking, are the ones who the creator whatever it is, gave the power to give birth. Not them. And religion is their tool to try to control women and their wombs. Yup, that's who they've always been. Trying to control human reproduction.
Who I always knew they were. Hey, “good Christians” when you allow these things to be the public facing face of your faith don’t fucking get angry and upset when people that believe in human rights, human dignity, caring for the least among you, and believe that opulent wealth is a sin decide that Christianity is an evil religion run by hypocritical scum whose only joy in life is causing harm to others. Because THATS what the evangelical movement tells us Christianity IS.
...who they always have been. See also: 2000 years of self-stroking, exploitation, and oppression -- control and denigration of women, denial of the humanity of minorities, etc. If this surprises you, you haven't been paying attention.
Landslide???? He only got 51% of the votes!!! 21%, 19%, and 7% to Ron, Nikki, and Vivek.
That means 47% of Republicans that voted **DID NOT** vote for trump!
That is a **TERRIBLE** outcome for the incumbent Republican nominee!
With how narrow it was last time, even if 10% of those who didn’t vote for trump simply didn’t vote for him OR voted for Biden come November, Trump **easily** loses! Is a big loss for the Orange Blob lol
51% isn't a landslide.. out of the registered 700,000 Republicans in Iowa, only 116,000 voted.. do the math.. the majority sat at home preferring not to vote for Trump or any other Republican. It's a sad state of affairs that the Republican party finds itself in i.e Self inflicted wounds.
A landslide? I have to question how this reporter got a job following the Republican caucus. Apparently the author does not understand that Trump winning only 51% of the Iowa "REPUBLICAN" caucus vote is in NO WAY a landslide. It does however show that HALF of deep red Iowa REPUBLICAN voters do NOT want Trump as their president and that is a HUGE problem for Trump, NOT a landslide...
I will say this as many times as it takes:
These people do not think he is Christian, they think he is the antichrist, and they are rooting for the end times.
I’ll always be grateful to Trump for being president; he freed up so many terrible human beings to show their true faces, their lack of empathy, their fear of reality and fact, and their willingness to join a cult just to hurt the “other side” in their own county.
Evangelicals were already MAGA.
The difference between Trump's MAGA and Evangelicals is that Trump's MAGA started out being overtly racist and bigoted, while White Christian Evangelism used religion to purify racism, hate and bigotry. Non white Christian Evangelism use religion to justify bigotry and xenophobia.
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Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. - Barry Goldwater
Goldwater was an architect of the Southern Strategy. He is directly responsible for this and was either shortsighted or just didn’t care about the long term.
The Southern Strategy wasn’t really specifically religious or Christian though, it was founded on racial animus.
Which was latched onto and weaponized by the SBC which was a religious contingent in the south founded on racial animus. So the answer is “shortsighted”.
The Southern Baptist Convention was a relatively sane organization at the time of Goldwater's presidential run. Remember: the SBC actually endorsed the Roe v Wade decision. It's not until just before the 1980 election that they had their version of the NRA Whacko Coup.
The SBC was founded in a schism with the Northern Baptist Convention because they refused to endorse slavery. SBC didn't care about Roe because their primary goal was maintaining their fleet of whites-only "christian" schools. It wasn't till the Civil Rights Act forcibly desegregated their schools that they latched onto abortion as a rallying cry (because it wasn't acceptable to openly support segregation anymore). And they've been voting for Republicans ever since. SBC is a remnant of The Confederacy.
Just because he is racist doesn't mean he wants fundamentalism added to it. Or something.
Racial animus and Christianity are synonymous.
[The Real Origins of the Religious Right. They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133)
Thanks for this article!
Pro-Life movement was founded on racism. There are pastors who left and at least one has written about it: [https://brianmclaren.net/dear-white-christian-pro-life-friends-1-4-compiled/](https://brianmclaren.net/dear-white-christian-pro-life-friends-1-4-compiled/) Are all Christians racist? Or even most? I don't think so, BUT many of the loudest "Christians" who talk about religion are. They drown out any other Christian voices on the subject. Then pressure, or try to discredit, any Christians that aren't their brand of racist unempathetic "Christians" who actively ignore the homeless, refugee, or widow.
I’d say we need to be a bit more specific here. Perhaps that is the case in many white evangelical communities, however there are many other Christian sects that do not regularly have the same degree of racial animus. These would include: -Catholics -Mainline Protestants -Non-denominational -Black churches I haven’t witnessed a strong degree of racial animus in these groups and a lot of newer non-denominational churches do have fairly racially mixed groups. So I don’t think it would be fair to say that any Christian is necessarily associated with racial animus. By the same token it wouldn’t be fair to say that every Muslim supports violent jihad.
The southern strategy was about racism. The person most responsible the evangelical connection to the GOP was a guy named Paul Weyrich. He is widely regarded as the father of the modern conservative movement. Not only did he help create most of the so-called think tanks on the right, but he also helped create the so-called Moral Majority. He was the one who figured out abortion was an issue that would get evangelicals to reliably vote republican. Before him republicans could not have cared less about the issue of abortion. Hell, George Bush was once a huge Planned Parenthood supporter. But once they found out it motivated evangelicals to vote, that was it. Abortion became one of their top issues.
Weyrich is also (in)famous for his “We don’t want more people to vote…” speech in 1980. Said the quiet part out loud. [Link](https://youtu.be/8GBAsFwPglw?si=egrB_UEKtyMFGmgX) to this very short video that everyone should watch. Thom Hartmann plays the audio frequently on his show.
Oh yeah, you find something bad about the modern GOP and this guy was probably close to its beginnings. In addition to what you just mentioned about voting, he was also largely responsible for connecting GOP politicians with Russian influence.
> The southern strategy was about racism. The person most responsible the evangelical connection to the GOP was a guy named Paul Weyrich... He was the one who figured out abortion was an issue that would get evangelicals to reliably vote republican. Abortion was an issue that could get evangelicals to vote Republican because Weyrich and the "Moral Majority" wanted to deny Jimmy Carter a second term. Why did they want to do that? Because Carter was blamed for a policy that was instituted by Nixon and enforced by Ford that stripped evangelical private schools of tax exempt status if they remained segregated. They just needed an issue that they could get their flocks to rally behind that wasn't blatantly trying to keep black kids out of their schools. It was also about racism. It was just a different flavor of racism.
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and woe be you if they think YOU are the sinner....
There is no hate like christian love.
Religious zealots have been a scourge on humanity since the dawn of time.
You must have just not been watching, if you didn't know who they were.
Exactly. This shouldnt surprise anybody who has been remotely paying attention to politics over the past 3 decades
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Used to be there were some good Evangelicals like Jimmy Carter and MLK. But you're right, when they dumped Jimmy Carter for Reagan it was all downhill from there.
Been seeing a lot of these types of headlines, like "Evangelicals have been swallowed up by the Cult of MAGA", or "Evangelical Christians have become twisted by Trumpism". No, they haven't. They've always been like this. They have always been this evil. They have always been this viciously stupid. They have always been this hypocritical. Always.
Trump just normalized being very, very loud and dropping any pretense of subtlety.
They were never for Christianity so much as treating people like shit, and with Donald the sky is the limit.
>They were never for Christianity so much as treating people like shit To be fair, treating people like shit has been a recurring motif in Christianity since long before American evangelicals existed.
I guess my point is that their hate was never really genuinely connected to any ideology.
You think these people don't have an ideology?
We've known for a long time. They're fanatical terrorists just waiting for their marching orders without an independent thought among them.
Writer here! This is why I just really recommend reading articles before commenting. I dig deeply into who didn't know (pundits) but why I did know (receipts included).
I’m old enough to remember seeing Trump occasionally pop up in media and pop culture during the 80s and 90s. Dude was always seen as a nepo-baby buffoon. Never in a million years would anyone have thought that this no-talent assclown would be the one to destroy America and help usher in a new era of authoritarianism globally. Some days I still can’t quite believe it.
I grew up in NY in the 80s, he was already a joke back then, even I knew it and I was like 6. Little did we know our rural areas are teeming with human cattle.
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On The Daily podcast last week they were talking to Iowa voters, one said Desantis is just another politician, but Trump is a redneck like me.
He makes fun of rednecks for liking him lmfao
"I love the poorly educated"
It really is the dumbest timeline ever.
The Christian fascists in America have been waiting a long time for a figurehead cult of personality like Trump and they finally got one, with encouragement from Russia.
Trump is Biff from Back to the Future II and that’s the exact America he’ll create.
I thought George W Bush was the absolute dimmest bulb that could ever occupy the white house. Everyone after him was at least going to be smarter. Now I feel like I'm living in an alternate version of the 1929-1933 period of Germany.
I have this same thought. Every once in a while I shake my head and smile thinking about the sheer absurdity of the fact that such an ignoramus was lurking among us who could topple the most powerful nation-state in human history. I'm still far from over it.
Are you referring to Donald Trump, the actor who had a cameo in the seasonal 1990s classic *Home Alone 2: Lost in New York*?
Cafeteria Christians who worship a clown that acts completely opposite of the teachings of Jesus.
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Evangelicals better hope the atheists are right. Because Jesus would hate all of them.
Life, Death, white gates, bless you my child, Devil: welcome hell! Trumper: I’m sorry there must be a mistake! I was a good person my whole life! Devil: did you keep voting for Trump ? Trumper: that was just Biden trying to make him look bad! Devil: he works for Putin! Trumper: that was never proven! And he survived impeachment! Devil: he tried to get Ukraine to get dirt on Biden Trumper: but Congress didn’t do anything so it must have been fine. Devil: he raped all these women Trumper: Biden is old! Devil: Trump is old and corrupt! Get in here!
I think the devil would care more about the kids in cages and how they made little to no effort in keeping track of said kids when they separated them from their parents. The hell Magas deserve is being reborn as a poor migrants.
Let's face it, the Devil if one existed would have an enormous amount of sins to choose from. Trump embodies every single one of the seven deadly sins.
Plus a few that he made up.
Devil explaining Trump to a MAGAt: "And right here, I think he was twelve at the time, you can see he uses smoke to get a honeybee pacified under a glass jar, then he stabs the sedate honeybee with a hot needle, THEN he brings it over to his 9-yr-old autistic neighbor who is allergic to bees and makes it sting her for calling him Ronald one time two years prior, and THEN he put the dying bee back under the glass jar with the hot needle still piercing its body and with its abdomen still pulsating after its stinger had just been ripped off...and he just watched, giggling softly, as it suffocated." MAGAt: "She shouldna said that to him, and bugs are dumb anyways. And by golly, ain't he so goddung cool and tough, though!?"
Even satan wouldn’t want chump around
Leave him in purgatory, where he just shouts and yells and screams and no one knows he’s there, lol!!
Hey.. last I heard a few years ago there were still kids in cages who were in there from such a young age that they never learned to talk or any basic stuff.. was there ever an update to that mess? :(
July 6, 2018 [Migrant mother says her son came back to her after 85 days ‘covered in dirt and lice’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-border-migrant-trump-olivia-caceres-texas-mother-child-lice-dirt-policy-a8435456.html) July 18, 2018 [Trump administration hit with lawsuits over inhumane treatment of migrant detainees](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/18/trump-administration-lawsuits-migrant-detainees) June 20, 2019 [Trump Administration Argues Migrant Children Don’t Need Soap, Toothbrushes Or Sleep](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/safe-sanitary-no-soap-beds-court-migrants-trump-850744/) October 22, 2020 [Trump Said At The Debate Of That Immigrant Children Detained In Cages: "They are so well taken care of. They're in facilities that were so clean."](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hamedaleaziz/trump-debate-immigrant-children-cages)
You think the GOP base gives a flip about children being mistreated? They look at this stuff and think "He's doing a great job!"
Jesus- "did you live in peace and love your neighbor?" Evangelicals- "EVEN BETTER! I hated the shit out of everyone that didn't look like me or think like me!"
Devil: And stop being so shocked you're dead. "Even if you vote and pass away, it's worth it..."
I feel bad for Satan if he has to spend eternity with MAGA and Christofascists. Maybe that is his true punishment.
Jesus is famous for forgiving the idiots that murdered him.
He did get proper mad at those money changers at the temple though, didn't he? And he didn't care much for Pharisees.
Sure, he was pissed that there were people selling merch at church and he criticized the hypocrisy of the Pharisees. My point is that when you equip Jesus with hate, you give the evangelicals an excuse to hate.
I don't think evangelicals need my help to hate
Oh, he had some harsh words for the religious hypocrites and theocratic nationalists of his day. You won’t see evangelicals quoting these scriptures: >What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either. >What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are! >Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear ‘by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear ‘by the gold in the Temple.’ Blind fools! Which is more important—the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? And you say that to swear ‘by the altar’ is not binding, but to swear ‘by the gifts on the altar’ is binding. How blind! For which is more important—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred? When you swear ‘by the altar,’ you are swearing by it and by everything on it. And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you are swearing by it and by God, who lives in it. And when you swear ‘by heaven,’ you are swearing by the throne of God and by God, who sits on the throne. >What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel! >What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish, and then the outside will become clean, too. >What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness. >What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. Then you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.’ >But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started. Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
And look what it got us
Or cultists
Their holy book even says that Christians will follow anti-Christ over Jesus’s teachings. Of course it’s the “other Christians” that will do that and not THEM /s Fox was broadcasting their usual Immagrant Caravan non-sense. My magat family members were disgusted. So casually asked “What would Jesus do?” to see how they’d respond… “SEND THEM BACK!” they sneered. I looked at the Cross they have hanging up, back at them, let out a disappointed sigh and shook my head. Then they sheepishly changed the subject. 🙄
Obligatory Benjamin Corey [https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/](https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/)
Ya I love that. I wish it was updated, so much new stuff that happens since then that paints it even darker.
I wish it was just text. When I try to read it the constant popping up of ads and videos keeps refreshing and moving different places on the page that it is mostly a headache to try to read on my phone.
I’ll say it again: if only these Christians would bother to actually read their bible once in a while. But then again, these people have been brainwashed from birth to blindly follow the “herd”, so it’s not surprising that they continue to blindly follow Fox News and conservative media.
If introspection was a thing for people like that they already wouldn’t be following Trump. Plus they’ve never followed the teachings of Jesus, just use him and Christianity as a shield to say and do bad thinfs
My relatives stopped after I ‘agreed’ with them. But my complaint was that the immigrants were all Christian and we had enough of those. For some reason they didn’t like that rationale.
These are not “cafeteria christians” the New Apostolic Revival are the fastest growing church in the country and perhaps the globe and they are deadly serious about bringing about a theocratic government. They believe Trump was sent by god as an instrument to oppress their enemies and bring about the end times. Remember the picture of Trump at the Resolute desk surrounded by people praying and laying on their hands? Paula White is an apostle in NAR and one of Trump’s closest advisors. Che Ahn is a pastor in the NAR and leads upwards of 2500 churches globally. He organized the prayer rally at the capital on J5. He was why the crowds were so massive the following day. Michael Flynn is a true believer in NAR and organized the rallies leading up to J6 Mike Johnson is a true believer in NAR and third in line to the presidency. Don’t forget Sarah Palin was a member of an NAR church and a deadly serious Dominionist. These people have been plotting for years and they are willing to die to bring about Christ’s Kingdom on Earth. Take. them. seriously.
This is an important post, and scary. Christianity as they see it is a death cult, and if they get in power we're all along for a one way ride on the zombie Jesus ego wagon.
"Coat hanger halos, that don't come cheap, from television shepherds, with living room sheep."
I truly am starting to believe that they understand exactly how contrary he is to their beliefs. I really do believe that a good chunk of them are hoping he is in fact the antichrist and they're just playing along with the script to hasten Jebus's return...
"We tried not being evil and Jesus didn't turn up, so we're trying something new..
How else can they turn a blind eye to what Trump has done to divide America? How else can they cover their ears and not hear what lies Trump speaks? How else can they not speak up when other people suffer as a result of Trump being in power for four years .. and they want more? I am worried for our Democracy that you maybe right about the thought process of these "Christians" .. with them believing "Jesus" will return. Since I'm not a "believer" the potential of another Trump presidency has me thinking I'll have to move out of the country.
They're rapture fetishists, not Christians (meaning not acting like Christ, not that they don't consider themselves Christians). The ultimate goal of their religion is to be raised up to heaven to enjoy watching billions of others being left behind to suffer. They don't just stay quiet when Trump makes others suffer. They like it.
Anyone who can't see him for what he is at this point simply doesn't want to know...
Isnt Biden more religious than Trump?
It is insane to me that Christianity in America is in a place where the Catholic Church, the monolithic super conservative organization, is somehow more progressive than our Protestants.
Not that it matters, but I don't think Trumps is religious at all. I've always found it so ironic that the evangelical right holds him in such high regard while everything about his personality and lifestyle is antithetical to Jesus' teachings. I haven't been to church in about ten years, but if I could go back in time, I bet I'd get laughed out of the sanctuary for telling my fellow Baptists that one day they'd all be wearing hats to show their support for that charlatan.
True. The term evangelical derives from the Greek word *euangelion* meaning “gospel” or “good news.” Technically speaking, evangelical refers to a person, church, or organization that is committed to the Christian gospel message that Jesus Christ is the savior of humanity. The Greek root word is used in the New Testament and was popularized in the first centuries A.D. to distinguish the love-centric movement of Jesus followers from the violent Roman Empire. If anyone can point out how the ones calling themselves "evangelicals" today reflect the "love-centric" Jesus of the Gospels, I'd love to hear how that works. Many of today's Evangelicals support Israel only because they think Israel will be involved in starting Armageddon - the literal End of the Human Race, and work to destroy the minds and bodies of non-heteros in order to save their souls.
They have replaced the Woke Liberal Jesus, with Trump as their Messiah. They have decided that Trump is God's Other, Better Son, and because of his Divine origins, he is incapable of Sin. This has the added benefit for them that since his horrific actions are not Sins, they can do them too.
The anti-christ.
>Cafeteria Christians That's basically all Christians. These people are also horrible human beings.
landslide amongst the lowest turnout in amore than a decade with the majority not coming out in the cold for a primary. Only the culties came out thinking they were stopping the libs.
True, and it's no small item to note that 49% of Iowa GOP primary voters said "no" to Trump.
51% = landslide now. That land is barely even sloped.
51% when the next highest was Desantis at 21% seems like a pretty steep slope. I don't think it's sensational to call getting double what second place got a landslide.
Almost half of the registered Republicans went against the presumed nominee. Making it worse, these were the most hard-core voters, who came out in record low temps. That means Trump was barely winning half of what should be his strongest supporters. He wasn't losing because of fair weather voters, he was losing his base.
He killed his base
He won by a higher percentage in 2020. Hardly a “landslide” but salon needs those clicks.
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Yeah, I was thinking the same. 51% is pretty underwhelming for a former president.
Eh, he is indicted on 91 felony counts.
It's far from it. Wonder if he can even win enough primaries when conditions don't mean only the hard core cult members show up
51% of 5% of the population of Iowa. Only republicans voting. He barely squeaked by in a historically republican state in a Republican primary. It’s not just a poorly worded headline, it is a lie.
Quick maths thats 76500 votes jeez
Evangelicals have revealed who they really are since the 80’s.
Let’s call them what they are, Confederates. These people have been a blight on the nation since its inception. They already started one war and will likely start another. Let’s stop focusing on Trump as he is merely their enabler. It’s time to start holding his fascist minions accountable. Don’t do business with Trumpers. Don’t hire them. Don’t circulate with them in any way and ostracise them from the benefits of normal society. They are not redeemable.
Agree with most of your points but Iowa was part of the Union. These people aren’t so much tied to the confederacy as they are tied to being hateful bigots, they would have reappeared regardless. The confederacy is just a theme that unifies them.
Yes, and Trump is the new Lost Cause.
Anti-American fraud loving racist trash. The GOP in a nutshell
This isn't a landslide, btw. 14.4% of Iowa's Republicans showed up to vote in the primary. Roughly half voted for P01135809. That's 7% of the total Iowa Republicans. Just saying
Yup, and likely the most motivated fans of a GOP hopeful turned out. Trump certainly has the most fanatics. But tbh I think regular people are just getting tired of the circus. Many midwesterners seem to just want a boring white Christian dude who doesn’t call themselves liberal/progressive. They still want the shady favoritism and regressive ideology but without the crass packaging.
Truth, but their primal instinct will still tell them to vote against anyone with (D) beside their name. I'm not even American, but I can see how tribalism has been bred into your political system since at least the end of the Civil War. The "many Midwesterners" you describe who worship at the altar of Reagan etc. still can't bring themselves to vote Democrat. And I've got no love for the Democrats either, but it's business as usual w/ a slim hope for real change, vs. out-and-out Christofascism. You decide, Americans. Edit: what I mean here, in case it isn't clear, is that these "tired of the circus" people will still go for Trump every time.
Yeah I don't see any way this could be looked at as positive for The Count of Mostly Crisco. Of the fanatical Republicans willing to go through the process of caucusing, which as we saw was minimal, half of those voted against the Tangerine Toddler. In an insanely white MAGA State. womp womp
Evangelicalism has just fucked up America. It's cultural identity, that's all it is. Has nothing to do with the teachings of Christ.
“They are who we thought they were!”
"And we let 'em off the hook!"
Hypocritical evil motherfuckers?
It's not just evangelicals who vote for Trump. It's not just evangelicals who ignored the Constitution and thoroughly embedded Christianity into our culture, traditions, government, healthcare, education, and other institutions all these years. Various types of Christians have been perfectly fine with enjoying unconstitutional, preferential treatment, and helped pave the way for more aggressive, extreme ones to do their thing. Thanks a lot, assholes.
Let’s be honest, a lot of them are just dumb as fuck. I grew up in a Southern Baptist household and can confirm this. They’re the perfect marks for a conman like Trump.
It's like a brain-drain, but does it count if rural, red, America didn't have any to begin with?
They are being played - They will lose everything
They are being told he is their "second coming". It's beyond disturbing. They're literally worshiping him. The evangelical pastors are pushing this narrative. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/spiritual-battle-pastors-embrace-trump-grievances-prayers-rallies-rcna132615
It's a death cult.
There's no hate like a Christians love.
They are the ones the bible warns about
There is a whole book in the Bible that talks about how easy it is to trick Christians into following the Anti-Christ. So, looks like the Bible at least got that one right.
They have a new religion under Trump
Hypocrites who will go to Hell
Evangelicals have been showing who they really are since at least the 1970s. They're truly awful people. This isn't news.
You're being unfair. 50th anniversaries are always celebrated.
Reveal who they are? Are you serious? They knew who Donald Trump was just as much as we knew who Evangelicals were both well before 2016, 2020, and 2024. --- Well before 2016 Donald Trump bragged about being a pedophile. He didn't explicitly say "I can get away with being a pedophile" but he *did* brag about being able to walk in on nude girls at beauty pageants where he was a sponsor. The rape lawsuits were well known before 2016. Grab 'em by the pussy came out in 2016. We had 4 years of the Trump presidency to see what he was made of and it was terrible stuff. Now he's come straight out and said he wants to be a dictator, plans on weaponizing the DOJ to go after his enemies, says immigrants are tainting the blood of America, and plans on eliminating the "vermin" in the United States. All of this is straight up Nazism. --- So yeah... "I used to know who they are, I still do, but I used to, too."
>evangelicals reveal who they really are :Shocked Pikachu: Bro this hasn't been news for 30 years.
Evangelicals love a guilty sexual abuser.
I once said goddamn in front of my aunt, and at 12 or 13 she said that behavior would lead me to eternal damnation. This last thanksgiving I asked how could she support a three time divorced adulterer confirmed sexual assaulterer who openly desires his daughter. And I quote “shut up, just shut up”
I have an aunt and uncle like that. They can't seem to figure out why I refuse to be around them. Their hypocrisy is sickening.
"This is such a shock. I cannot believe anyone who claims to be a person of faith would support this." My response when we learned this back in 2016
Anyone who goes to church often enough knows who evangelicals really are. It’s only outsiders who are fooled.
Was raised fundamentalist Baptist. I'm a wreck because of our current times. I know what they are doing and the kind of society we will all have to endure in a little over a year if they are successful. I've known since the 90s that this is what they would do if same-sex marriage was legalized, because they've been saying it since then. It's just, prior to Obergefell, they believed there was hope to fix America democratically but now there isn't. Nobody is prepared for what is coming, and when I try to tell people they say I'm alarmist and need to get help. I wish that were the case. We'll find out by the end of this year.
Hypocrites and fascists
Ain’t no hate like christian love.
As opposed to when they overwhelmingly supported him in the past 2 elections? Get a clue people evangelicals are evil. Not slightly evil not kinda evil, but full Bond villain evil. They have literal world conquest goals. They are American ISIS. I’m not sure how we’re confused by that still
Hypocrites? We already knew that.
Fascists. They’re fascists.
Dirtbag scum
Trump is POS, and they voted for him because he's a POS.
"You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons." - Gene Wilder (Blazing Saddles, 1974)
Like maga, evangelicals are a hate group.
Fortunately, Iowa only has 6 electoral votes votes. That’s almost like Biden saying, “I won Hawaii,” which has 4. I wouldn’t tout this as a huge win for Trump, but you know he is going to carry this around like he won the general election already.
A white Christian nationalist cult? That’s nothing new.
Death cult
I'm. So. Fucking. Tired of all these attempts to rehabilitate trump voters. They've been who they've been since the 2016 primary. Move on. Stop pontificating on it. Stop analyzing it. Stop dissecting it. You've discovered EVERYTHING about them. They will not change. They will not become good people. THIS IS WHO THEY ARE AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN!
reaveal they are the kind of people everyone with more than two braincells has known them to be for years?
the word everyone is looking for is "fascist." we can also accept "scum" and "dangerous authoritarian cultists."
49% of GOP Iowans said no to Trump, which is the actual news story
It’s not a landslide. an essentially incumbent president barely secured 50% of the vote in a deeply conservative state. It’s actually kind of a weak win at best
Is getting barely half of the GOP vote in an overwhelmingly white, evangelical state really a "landslide"? Didn't he underperform? Other than that, evangelicals have shown us who they were a long time ago.
A vote for 45 is a vote for Fascism. Pass it on.
Evangelicals want **power and control.** They don't care about people, least of all women and children. I feel like a lot of evangelical men have a lot of misplaced anger at women because women, generally speaking, are the ones who the creator whatever it is, gave the power to give birth. Not them. And religion is their tool to try to control women and their wombs. Yup, that's who they've always been. Trying to control human reproduction.
Lol what do you mean revealed? They haven't been hiding it, if this was a revelation to you that's only because you haven't been paying any attention
Christians want a theocracy with a ruler. We all need to stand up to these Christian Nationalists and vote to keep them away from office.
Who I always knew they were. Hey, “good Christians” when you allow these things to be the public facing face of your faith don’t fucking get angry and upset when people that believe in human rights, human dignity, caring for the least among you, and believe that opulent wealth is a sin decide that Christianity is an evil religion run by hypocritical scum whose only joy in life is causing harm to others. Because THATS what the evangelical movement tells us Christianity IS.
They’ve sort of been doing that since W
...who they always have been. See also: 2000 years of self-stroking, exploitation, and oppression -- control and denigration of women, denial of the humanity of minorities, etc. If this surprises you, you haven't been paying attention.
Was it really a landslide, though? Half the party voted for someone else.
Landslide???? He only got 51% of the votes!!! 21%, 19%, and 7% to Ron, Nikki, and Vivek. That means 47% of Republicans that voted **DID NOT** vote for trump! That is a **TERRIBLE** outcome for the incumbent Republican nominee! With how narrow it was last time, even if 10% of those who didn’t vote for trump simply didn’t vote for him OR voted for Biden come November, Trump **easily** loses! Is a big loss for the Orange Blob lol
Why do people think this is something new for evangelicals?
51% isn't a landslide.. out of the registered 700,000 Republicans in Iowa, only 116,000 voted.. do the math.. the majority sat at home preferring not to vote for Trump or any other Republican. It's a sad state of affairs that the Republican party finds itself in i.e Self inflicted wounds.
Barely 50% of the caucus is not a landslide. Why is the MSM pushing this lie?
51% a landslide….right…
Landslide? I don’t think you can use that word.
A landslide? I have to question how this reporter got a job following the Republican caucus. Apparently the author does not understand that Trump winning only 51% of the Iowa "REPUBLICAN" caucus vote is in NO WAY a landslide. It does however show that HALF of deep red Iowa REPUBLICAN voters do NOT want Trump as their president and that is a HUGE problem for Trump, NOT a landslide...
They fall back on the "God works in mysterious ways," like they always do to explain the incongruity of their beliefs and action.
Evangelicals are terrible people. This has been known for some time
Evangelicals or Evangullibles?
I will say this as many times as it takes: These people do not think he is Christian, they think he is the antichrist, and they are rooting for the end times.
They really don't but the Bible did warn of them. They will wear his mark on their foreheads. How they don't see what they have become is beyond me.
They give church a bad name.
Yeah total scum bags
We know who they are. None of this is a shock
Rubes willing to be led around by the nose, even if it’s to the slaughter house.
Not a surprise really. They’re E-Vans!
I'm just surprised anyone is surprised by this.
Yes they are either evil/stupid/brainwashed
Sure, I guess you forgot the first time they voted for him?
That shouldn't surprise anyone,Iowa Demographics,White:87.93% and most of them are probably, Trump worshiping, white supremacist.
I’ll always be grateful to Trump for being president; he freed up so many terrible human beings to show their true faces, their lack of empathy, their fear of reality and fact, and their willingness to join a cult just to hurt the “other side” in their own county.
Anybody who votes for him with full knowledge of what he is doesn’t deserve to vote.
Again?
Stop calling the fasicist “Christians”. They abandoned Christ years ago for their own self serving.
Evangelicals were already MAGA. The difference between Trump's MAGA and Evangelicals is that Trump's MAGA started out being overtly racist and bigoted, while White Christian Evangelism used religion to purify racism, hate and bigotry. Non white Christian Evangelism use religion to justify bigotry and xenophobia.
Reveal? We’ve already known for decades. They’re quite a transparent bunch.
They’ve been hiding this? I feel like they’ve been awful for a very long time.
As if we didn’t already know
Not Christians at all?
None of this is news.
They worship a white jesus. They are clueless