Former Evangelical Republican warns the religious right's support of Trump will harm Christianity
5 years, 6 months ago

Former Evangelical Republican warns the religious right's support of Trump will harm Christianity

Salon  

A former evangelical Republican warned that the religious right’s embrace of President Donald Trump’s “moral freak show” will cost Christianity dearly in the future. “How can a group that for decades — and especially during the Bill Clinton presidency — insisted that character counts and that personal integrity is an essential component of presidential leadership not only turn a blind eye to the ethical and moral transgressions of Donald Trump, but also constantly defend him?” Part of that explanation, Wehner wrote, is that many evangelicals believe they’re engaged in an existential struggle with “wicked” American liberals, and they feel that Trump is their strongest champion in that fight. “Many white evangelical Christians, then, are deeply fearful of what a Trump loss would mean for America, American culture, and American Christianity,” Wehner wrote. “Nonchalantly jettisoning the ethic of Jesus in favor of a political leader who embraces the ethic of Thrasymachus and Nietzsche — might makes right, the strong should rule over the weak, justice has no intrinsic worth, moral values are socially constructed and subjective — is troubling enough.” Trump’s evangelical allies had revealed themselves as hypocrites, Wehner argued, and permanently stained the reputation of conservative Christianity.

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'Breaks my heart': MAGA evangelical fears Trump has thrown Christians 'under the bus'
1 week, 3 days ago

'Breaks my heart': MAGA evangelical fears Trump has thrown Christians 'under the bus'

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump broadened his voter coalition in the 2024 presidential race — and that's making at least some of his longtime supporters a little nervous. In an interview with Politico, Wisconsin-based Republican Party leader Timothy Bachleitner expressed concern that Trump had won over too many secular-minded voters and that he would listen less to evangelical Christians in his second …

"Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning": The push for Christian nationalism may backfire
3 weeks, 4 days ago

"Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning": The push for Christian nationalism may backfire

Salon  

Donald Trump has promised to be a dictator on “day one” of his administration. Professor Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University, told The Salt Lake Tribune, “It’s hard to overcome the white God gap…in a place like Pennsylvania or Michigan and Wisconsin.” White Christians are now literally and metaphorically Trump’s biblical "arrows" and "armor." …

Trump ushers in a Christian "deep state": MAGA moves to gut the Constitution
1 month ago

Trump ushers in a Christian "deep state": MAGA moves to gut the Constitution

Salon  

Far-right pastor Lance Wallnau is incredibly upset over the burgeoning controversies regarding Donald Trump's nominee for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth. On Thursday, Marianna Sotomayor wrote in the Washington Post that Trump's policy agenda will face the obstacle of "narrow and ideologically fractured majority" Republicans have in the House. Russell Vought, the architect of Project 2025, is a Christian nationalist who …

Opinion: Evangelical Christians’ long road to Donald Trump
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Opinion: Evangelical Christians’ long road to Donald Trump

LA Times  

White “Bible-believing” evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump, again. We don’t yet know the precise numbers, but it appears once again that four out of five white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election last week. His campaigns were littered with racist dog whistles, especially “law and order” and “welfare queens.” He opened his 1980 general election campaign …

Why are some Evangelicals drawn to — and sticking by — Trump? This pastor weighs in
2 months, 1 week ago

Why are some Evangelicals drawn to — and sticking by — Trump? This pastor weighs in

NPR  

Why are some Evangelicals drawn to — and sticking by — Trump? This Pentecostal church is led by pastor Chad Harvey, whose sermons — often to weekly crowds of about 3,000 — usually feature on Cross Assembly's social media channels. In North Carolina, All Things Considered host Scott Detrow sat down with Harvey and talked about all of this — …

For some conservative Christians supporting Trump, it's about the policies : Consider This from NPR
2 months, 2 weeks ago

For some conservative Christians supporting Trump, it's about the policies : Consider This from NPR

NPR  

For some conservative Christians supporting Trump, it's about the policies Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrea Ellen Reed/NPR Andrea Ellen Reed/NPR Evangelical and Pentecostal conservatives are a powerful force in Republican politics. They've stuck by former President Donald Trump for three presidential elections in a row. That's despite Trump's long list of criminal charges, sexual harassment and assault allegations, and …

Trump's 'uncomfortable charade' with evangelicals is hitting a wall: analyst
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's 'uncomfortable charade' with evangelicals is hitting a wall: analyst

Raw Story  

Add to the reports that Donald Trump has become "exhausted" due to the rigors of campaigning for a second shot at the Oval Office a new report that he isn't giving his all to woo evangelical voters with the election less than two weeks away. "The abbreviated, uncomfortable charade showed how Trump, in his third presidential run, has dispensed with …

Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as 'spiritual warfare'
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump boosts a hard-right Christian worldview that paints the election as 'spiritual warfare'

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The campaign has launched a …

"A corruption of what it means to be Christian": Liberal pastors challenge Christianity's MAGA turn
2 months, 3 weeks ago

"A corruption of what it means to be Christian": Liberal pastors challenge Christianity's MAGA turn

Salon  

One August morning in Los Angeles, 18 Christian clergy members marched onto the street outside the Cameo Beverly Hills to support hotel workers striking for better pay, invoking Jesus Christ as one who taught that "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Many chose to leave and either …

Evangelicals buried by Christian columnist for latching on to Trump's 'freak show'
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Evangelicals buried by Christian columnist for latching on to Trump's 'freak show'

Raw Story  

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Atlantic columnist Peter Wehner, who writes about politics from a conservative Christian perspective, hammered Donald Trump's evangelical supporters for tossing aside their principles to back his third presidential bid. Asked by the "Morning Joe" co-hosts to talk about his most recent column, "This Election is Different," where he fretted about the declining …

Journalist tells Bill Maher evangelicals see Trump as their 'barbarian' 'protector'
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Journalist tells Bill Maher evangelicals see Trump as their 'barbarian' 'protector'

Raw Story  

A journalist and author told comedian Bill Maher on Friday night that "clear-eyed" evangelicals view former President Donald Trump as an "imperfect" protector from a "culture that has slipped away and a country they don't recognize." Maher said he was glad to have Alberta on the show to talk about the key voting subgroup of evangelicals, noting that white evangelicals …

Jews and Catholics warn against Trump’s latest loyalty test for religious voters
3 months, 1 week ago

Jews and Catholics warn against Trump’s latest loyalty test for religious voters

LA Times  

Former President Trump acknowledges the crowd as he exits the stage after speaking at the Israeli American Council National Summit on Thursday in Washington. Jews and Catholics can vote for him and ace the test, but those who don’t, he says, “need their head examined.” If he loses, Trump added, “Jewish people would have a lot to do with the …

Trump's transformation into a religious totem turns Christian nationalism toxic
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump's transformation into a religious totem turns Christian nationalism toxic

Salon  

Public opinion polls show that 47 percent of registered voters support Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Your new polling and other work examine the role of the authoritarian personality in support for Donald Trump and his neofascist MAGA movement, specifically among white Christians. First, nearly half of white evangelical Protestants and nearly four in ten Republicans agree with the …

'Real peril': Expert says growing religious group seeks world domination with Trump's help
3 months, 2 weeks ago

'Real peril': Expert says growing religious group seeks world domination with Trump's help

Raw Story  

A powerful fringe Christian movement behind the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attacks believes former President Donald Trump will help them take over the world, a theologian reveals in his soon-to-be published book. Salon's Amanda Marcotte spoke with Dr. Matthew Taylor about the dark implications of "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy" about …

An unsteady alliance: Donald Trump and the religious right
4 months ago

An unsteady alliance: Donald Trump and the religious right

The Hindu  

Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee for 2024, presents a concatenation of contradictions. We look at the extent of and causes for support for Mr. Trump among the Christian right, and broadly look at how the Republican party has been intertwined with religious causes. In his days as a New York businessman, Mr. Trump was pro-choice; in a 1999 interview, …

Ex-GOP lawmaker shreds Project 2025 masterminds for 'perversion' of Christian faith
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Ex-GOP lawmaker shreds Project 2025 masterminds for 'perversion' of Christian faith

Raw Story  

Former Rep. David Jolly tore into the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and the organization's director Kevin Roberts, for their effort to reimpose Christian nationalism on the country. Roberts and his ilk fundamentally misunderstand the American idea, said Jolly, a longtime Trump skeptic, on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Thursday evening — and just as important, they misunderstand the religion they claim to …

Meet the powerful evangelicals who believe Trump is an apostle who will reclaim America for Christ
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Meet the powerful evangelicals who believe Trump is an apostle who will reclaim America for Christ

The Independent  

It’s October 2019, and in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, then president Donald Trump stands at his desk in a blue suit, his eyes closed. “Trump doesn’t understand it in the religious sense, but he definitely understands that he can use it to put himself forward,” she says. As author Richard Hutcheson wrote in his book, God in …

Evangelical 'mass radicalization around Trump' in 'overdrive' after shooting: expert
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Evangelical 'mass radicalization around Trump' in 'overdrive' after shooting: expert

Raw Story  

According to a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump over a week ago has given a boost to Christian nationalists and far-right evangelicals who believe the former president is the chosen one as promised in various prophecies. According to the religious scholar, since that time "right-wing Christianity is presently …

Supporters Believe ‘Hand of God’ Saved Trump
55 years ago

Supporters Believe ‘Hand of God’ Saved Trump

Wired  

On Monday night at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina took to the stage and declared he believes in miracles. But an American lion got back up on his feet and he roared.” Scott, a man who once literally hammered the Ten Commandments to the wall of a government building, is one of dozens …

Why Trump is closer to the Christian evangelists than ever
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Why Trump is closer to the Christian evangelists than ever

The Telegraph  

Yet for all the 78-year-old’s brashness, and tendency to become embroiled in controversy, Republicans say the root of his appeal to the evangelical movement is quite simple: he delivered for its followers during his one term in office. “I fully expect Trump to get about 80 per cent of the white evangelical vote again,” says Fea. ‘It’s a mystery to …

‘We’ve all broken the Ten Commandments’: Evangelical Christians on why they’re still backing Trump
6 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We’ve all broken the Ten Commandments’: Evangelical Christians on why they’re still backing Trump

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Wearing cowboy hats bejewelled with “Free Trump” brooches and waving …

Trump endorses Ten Commandments in schools, implores evangelical Christians to vote in November
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump endorses Ten Commandments in schools, implores evangelical Christians to vote in November

LA Times  

Donald Trump told a group of evangelicals they “cannot afford to sit on the sidelines” of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point to “go and vote, Christians, please!” Trump also endorsed displaying the Ten Commandments in schools and elsewhere during his speech to a group of politically influential evangelical Christians in Washington on Saturday. When Trump addressed the …

US elections: Trump to fete evangelicals who back him but want to see national abortion ban
6 months, 2 weeks ago

US elections: Trump to fete evangelicals who back him but want to see national abortion ban

New Indian Express  

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump is set to speak Saturday to a group of politically influential evangelicals who fiercely support him but would like to see the presumptive Republican presidential nominee promise to do more to restrict abortion. While Trump nominated three of the Supreme Court justices who overturned a federally guaranteed right to abortion, he has argued that supporting a national …

Letters to the Editor: Do Trump’s Christian supporters worship a different version of Jesus?
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Do Trump’s Christian supporters worship a different version of Jesus?

LA Times  

Christian-themed pro-Trump hats are sold at a campaign rally for the former president in Ohio on March 16. To the editor: I have read at least a half dozen articles from different media sources about evangelical Christians supporting Trump. There is only one correct answer that I know of, and it’s this: I know that I’m a Christian because I …

Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president’s backers say he shares same faith and values
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president’s backers say he shares same faith and values

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Trump supports Jesus, and without Jesus, America will fall,” said Kimberly Vaughn of Florence, …

Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president’s backers say he shares faith, values
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Jesus is their savior, Trump is their candidate. Ex-president’s backers say he shares faith, values

Associated Press  

As Donald Trump increasingly infuses his campaign with Christian trappings while coasting to a third Republican presidential nomination, his support is as strong as ever among evangelicals and other conservative Christians. “Trump supports Jesus, and without Jesus, America will fall,” said Kimberly Vaughn of Florence, Kentucky, as she joined other supporters of the former president entering a campaign rally near …

Letters to the Editor: Why supporting Trump makes sense to evangelicals
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Why supporting Trump makes sense to evangelicals

LA Times  

To the editor: I will give columnist LZ Granderson two reasons why people of faith tolerate former President Trump. To the editor: Granderson shares what should be deemed the gospel truth about counter-intuitive support Trump enjoys from most evangelical voters — faithfully backing Trump lays bare their making a proverbial deal with the devil. Instead, they mutter something like, “Trump, …

Granderson: How can evangelicals like Mike Johnson tolerate Trump?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Granderson: How can evangelicals like Mike Johnson tolerate Trump?

LA Times  

At the 2016 Republican National Convention, when I told Donald Trump’s “God whisperer” Paula White that he referred to her as his pastor, she said she was his spiritual advisor — as if that were some sort of “get out of jail free” card for her. The joint news conference between Trump and Johnson on Friday will most likely help …

Trump’s 'baffling' bond with evangelicals reaches 'level we haven’t seen before': expert
9 months ago

Trump’s 'baffling' bond with evangelicals reaches 'level we haven’t seen before': expert

Raw Story  

Assuming there are no more delays, Donald Trump's first criminal trial is only a week away. Despite those allegations, the thrice-married, twice-divorced Trump has maintained a close bond with far-right Christian nationalists that, according to The Guardian's Adam Gabbatt, is growing even stronger during his 2024 presidential campaign. "In both 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump resoundingly won the vote of …

Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that's exactly why MAGA will eat them up

Salon  

Earlier this week, Donald Trump unveiled his newest grift to squeeze money out of his cult followers: Trump-branded Bibles. Claiming the book contains the "King James version" and "also includes the Founding Father documents," Trump promised "you have to have it for your heart, for your soul." It's likely a selling point that Trump's version of "Christianity" is void of …

"They’ve told me he’s Jesus": Unpacking Trump's empty pseudo-religion
10 months ago

"They’ve told me he’s Jesus": Unpacking Trump's empty pseudo-religion

Salon  

Barring an unforeseen event, Donald Trump will be the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee. Before Trump’s rise to power, the mass media hardly paid attention to the radical white evangelicals, generating a perception among its members of media bias toward a liberal secular agenda and worldview. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Salon's interviews with …

"I’m a very proud Christian”: Will religion be enough to save Donald Trump?
10 months, 2 weeks ago

"I’m a very proud Christian”: Will religion be enough to save Donald Trump?

Salon  

Do you accept Donald Trump as your personal lord and savior? At the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention in Nashville on Thursday, Trump told the audience, “If I get in, you’re going to be using that power at a level that you’ve never used before… With your help and God’s grace, the great revival of America begins on …

Trump tells right-wing Christians they will have power at 'level you've never used before'
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump tells right-wing Christians they will have power at 'level you've never used before'

Raw Story  

Just ahead of his headline spot at the CPAC convention in Virginia and the South Carolina primary on Saturday, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump delivered a speech to right-wing broadcasters Thursday night in which the former president vowed to hand power over to the Christian nationalist movement on an unprecedented scale. Trump said during his speech at the annual conference …

Trump tells religious broadcasters he’ll defend Christianity against perceived threats from the left
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Trump tells religious broadcasters he’ll defend Christianity against perceived threats from the left

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former President Donald Trump promised to use a second term in the White House to defend Christian values and even suggested he’d shield the faith’s central iconography, warning a convention of religious broadcasters on Thursday night that the left wants “to tear down crosses.” “Remember, every communist regime throughout history has tried to stamp out the churches, …

Apocalypse now: Donald Trump dons the "armor of God" — and pushes for theocracy
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Apocalypse now: Donald Trump dons the "armor of God" — and pushes for theocracy

Salon  

Donald Trump has frequently hinted or implied that he has been chosen by God as some type of prophet and messiah, a divine champion in the 2024 presidential election. He rarely attends church and displays open disdain for his evangelical followers, a group he views as a means to an end: They provide him with the narcissistic energy, campaign funds …

Can evangelical Christianity be saved? I still believe — but only if it dumps Trump
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Can evangelical Christianity be saved? I still believe — but only if it dumps Trump

Salon  

In my own personal life, I have an aversion to accepting advice and even to human touch. We need your help to stay independent Subscribe today to support Nathaniel Manderson's commentary The only way we will ever see that kind of change today is from a movement from the evangelical church itself. Sooner or later, evangelicals must save their own …

Religion scholar on the "civil war" within Christianity — and the urgency of stopping Trump
1 year ago

Religion scholar on the "civil war" within Christianity — and the urgency of stopping Trump

Salon  

In this age of intense political and religious division, Christian nationalists have convinced themselves that they have a special claim on America. In light of the manifest surrender of so many Christians to Trump and to authoritarian reactionary Christianity, being a Christian means resistance to this surrender, participation in this internal struggle for the soul of Christianity in the United …

'The only savior I can see': Iowa evangelicals increasingly turn to worshiping Trump
1 year ago

'The only savior I can see': Iowa evangelicals increasingly turn to worshiping Trump

Raw Story  

The New York Times has published a lengthy report about evangelical Christians in Iowa who have stopped going to church on a regular basis but who have grown an increasingly religious attachment to former President Donald Trump. Karen Johnson, another Iowa evangelical who no longer attends church, similarly spoke of Trump to the Times in explicitly religious terms. While Johnson …

How Republicans convinced themselves America was meant to be a "Christian nation"
1 year ago

How Republicans convinced themselves America was meant to be a "Christian nation"

Salon  

As a progressive black sheep who has drifted politically from my lily-white Republican family, I have ample opportunity to witness the damage that the MAGA movement has been doing to people I once considered reasonable-if-conservative. By waving around a Bible he doesn't read and talking up a Jesus he doesn't believe in, Trump has underscored how much "Christian" is a …

Powerful right-wing Christian dumps Trump — and endorses Ron DeSantis for president
1 year, 1 month ago

Powerful right-wing Christian dumps Trump — and endorses Ron DeSantis for president

Raw Story  

As the Iowa caucuses draw near, former President Donald Trump holds a significant lead ahead of other Republican presidential candidates — but Florida Gov. “If you upend the former president here, I think we’re going to offer America a choice,” Vander Plaats said. “Typically, what I hear is that they’re very thankful of President Trump and the administration,” Vander Plaats …

'I just don't get it': Ex-FBI agent stumped by evangelicals’ devotion to Trump
1 year, 1 month ago

'I just don't get it': Ex-FBI agent stumped by evangelicals’ devotion to Trump

Raw Story  

Although Donald Trump is by no means universally loved in Christianity, he continues to be incredibly popular among a certain type: white fundamentalist evangelical Protestants, who have a different set of beliefs from Catholics and Mainline Protestants. "According to the national election and AP Votecast voter exit polls in 2020, 81 percent of 'born-again' evangelical Christians supported Donald Trump for …

'As un-Christian as it gets': Conservative wallops evangelicals for 'worship' of Trump
1 year, 3 months ago

'As un-Christian as it gets': Conservative wallops evangelicals for 'worship' of Trump

Raw Story  

Conservative columnist Matt Lewis has written a new piece for The Daily Beast where he hammers American evangelicals for "worshipping" former President Donald Trump, an act which he describes as "un-Christian as it gets." Lewis begins his piece by marveling at the way many American evangelicals feel beholden to Trump despite the fact that his allegedly un-Christlike behavior has led …

'Wake up': Trump-loving Evangelicals warned they've been 'taken in by a hoax'
1 year, 4 months ago

'Wake up': Trump-loving Evangelicals warned they've been 'taken in by a hoax'

Raw Story  

In a blunt-talking column published by the Charlotte Observer, a lifelong Evangelical expressed dismay that Christians have been taken in by Donald Trump who could not be less like Jesus Christ. According to Isaac Bailey, Christians who are still standing by the former president despite his record of criminality and incitements to violence need to "wake up" and realize they …

Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'
1 year, 5 months ago

Pastor alarmed after Trump-loving congregants deride Jesus' teachings as 'weak'

Raw Story  

Evangelical Christian leader Russell Moore revealed this week that many evangelical pastors have become alarmed that their Trump-loving congregants have become so militant that they are even rejecting the teachings of Jesus Christ. In an interview with NPR, Moore said that multiple pastors had told him disturbing stories about their congregants being upset when they read from the famous "Sermon …

Some critics see Trump’s behavior as un-Christian. His conservative Christian backers see a hero
1 year, 5 months ago

Some critics see Trump’s behavior as un-Christian. His conservative Christian backers see a hero

Associated Press  

For eight years, Donald Trump has managed to secure the support of many evangelical and conservative Christians despite behavior that often seemed at odds with teachings espoused by Christ in the Gospels. “Conservative Christians continue to overwhelmingly support Donald Trump because of his biblical policies, not his personal piety,” Jeffress told The Associated Press via email. “I am certain that …

Trump is inadvertently smothering the religious right​
1 year, 11 months ago

Trump is inadvertently smothering the religious right​

Raw Story  

There was a time in American life when it was considered bad manners to talk about politics or religion at the dinner table. But the emergence of the Christian Right under the auspices of organizations like the Moral Majority led by the Reverend Jerry Fallwell and Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition was explicitly formed as a faction of the Republican Party …

Trump relied on evangelical voters in 2016, but accused Christian leaders of 'disloyalty'. Can he count on them in 2024?
1 year, 11 months ago

Trump relied on evangelical voters in 2016, but accused Christian leaders of 'disloyalty'. Can he count on them in 2024?

Firstpost  

New Delhi: During his 2016 campaign, former US President Donald Trump relied heavily on support from evangelical voters. The next day, Trump lashed out at Jeffress and other evangelical leaders he spent years courting, accusing them of “disloyalty” and blaming them for the party’s disappointing performance in the 2022 midterm elections. Asked about Jeffress’ neutrality in the 2024 race, Trump …

Trump’s inner circle baffled by his ‘self-defeating’ attacks on evangelicals: report
1 year, 11 months ago

Trump’s inner circle baffled by his ‘self-defeating’ attacks on evangelicals: report

Raw Story  

Speaking on the Real America’s Voice network this week, former President Donald Trump took aim at evangelical leaders who've yet to endorse him for 2024, CNN reports. “Nobody has ever done more for right to life than Donald Trump,” Trump said, adding that evangelicals haven't done enough to support his preferred candidates in the midterms. As CNN points out, Trump …

Evangelicals may be turning away from Trump, but Christian nationalism isn’t going anywhere
2 years ago

Evangelicals may be turning away from Trump, but Christian nationalism isn’t going anywhere

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. David Lane, the leader of the American Renewal Project, which is dedicated to mobilising …

It's not just Trump: Midterms show the religious right is an albatross around the GOP's neck
2 years, 1 month ago

It's not just Trump: Midterms show the religious right is an albatross around the GOP's neck

Raw Story  

Republican leaders are struggling with this information because dumping Trump is easier said than done so long as he has a substantial percentage of their voting base in his thrall. As with Trump, Republicans are in a "can't win with them/can't win without them" relationship with the religious right. But by continuing to pander to the religious right, Republicans are …

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