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Behind the panic in white, Christian America(Ezra Klein)


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8 minutes ago, ChemEngr79 said:

My guess: the damn breaks in 2020 as the demographic shifts coupled with millennial disdain for the Trumpified Christians make it impossible to retain that plateau..

In the original podcast it said something like 7 out of 10 younger people called themselves Christians, now it's 3 out of 10. 

 

It's reason it's so important to gerrymander, suppress minority voters and stack the courts. 

 

Once the damn breaks it's over for them. The current Republican party likely won't exist 

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Been saying it for years. 2016 was white rural Christian America's last gasp. All you have to do is read the drivel from soxcat and little earl to understand how scared they are at the change that is

spirituality is a beautiful thing. Organized religion isn't.

I'm not sure what the most important variable is.  It seems to me that this is an attempt by white men to avoid sharing power with women and people of color.  If you look at the makeup of republican o

1 hour ago, OILERMAN said:

 

Most importantly it clearly shows how the GOP is overwhelmingly the evangelical party, even with a guy like Trump running things. The party is all about banning abortion attacking LGBT rights and “religious freedom” nowadays, along with tax cuts for the rich people really running things.

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42 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

Most importantly it clearly shows how the GOP is overwhelmingly the evangelical party, even with a guy like Trump running things. The party is all about banning abortion attacking LGBT rights and “religious freedom” nowadays, along with tax cuts for the rich people really running things.

AKA hate and greed. 

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Paul Hardesty didn’t pay much attention to President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Greenville, N.C., last month until a third concerned constituent rang his cell phone.

 

The residents of Hardesty’s district — he’s a Trump-supporting West Virginia state senator — were calling to complain that Trump was “using the Lord’s name in vain,” as Hardesty recounted.

 

“The third phone call is when I actually went and watched his speech because each of them sounded distraught,” said Hardesty, who describes himself as a conservative Democrat.

 

Here’s what he would have seen. Trump crowing, “they'll be hit so goddamn hard,” while bragging about bombing Islamic State militants. And Trump recounting his warning to a wealthy businessman: “If you don't support me, you're going to be so goddamn poor.”

 

“We all wish he would be a little more careful with his language, but it’s not anything that’s a deal breaker and it’s not something we’re going to get morally indignant about,” said Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., one of Trump’s earliest religious supporters.

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/12/trump-evangelicals-blasphemy-profanity-1456178

 

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that Trump can say or do that evangelicals won't defend.

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On 7/13/2019 at 12:20 PM, Starkiller said:

Most importantly it clearly shows how the GOP is overwhelmingly the evangelical party, even with a guy like Trump running things. The party is all about banning abortion attacking LGBT rights and “religious freedom” nowadays, along with tax cuts for the rich people really running things.

It’s what Jesus would have wanted.

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