How the Religious Right Won the Trump Era
Media failed to reckon with the evangelical support for Trump and we’re all paying the price.
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We’re just over a year into Donald fucking Trump’s second non-consecutive term as president of these Not-So-United-States. Americans have been murdered by ICE and Border Patrol agents in the streets; people who “look like” immigrants are being rounded up and sent to concentration camps with horrific conditions; and pregnant girls, among them many victims of rape, are being sent to Texas to prevent them from having abortions.
Just last week, our dipshit dictator who can’t shut up about how he “should” be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize also joined Israel in starting a war with Iran (for, um, reasons??), and at least one Christian military commander reportedly informed his unit that the battle against Iran would “cause Armageddon” and bring about the return of Jesus.
Meanwhile, Trump’s support among the right-wing, mostly white evangelical Protestants who first ushered the man into power a decade ago remains resilient. According to PRRI’s latest data, more than two-thirds of white evangelicals currently rate Trump favorably, compared with 36 percent of all Americans.
Hypocrisy is baked into authoritarianism and evangelicalism is an authoritarian form of Christianity in which the ends justify the means.