George Bush made religion central to his identity and had a redemption arc (finding god after a wayward life), which translates well with evangelicals. But: Was there one thing that made Trump so popular with born-again Christians? Like the non Q-brained ones.
Trump made them feel like they were in charge again. So much white reaction can be tied to their loss of power and material benefits (i.e. privilege) as the country becomes less religious and less white. Conservative white folks have always held the favor of capital, but in recent years capital has been trying to expand who gets to be included (note the fervor of white reaction against largely performative acts of support for LGBTQ causes from corporations). And privilege is a zero sum game. Trump was always signaling to religious white folks that he was gonna do things that would let them regain a feeling of superiority, usually by hurting the “right” people.
Was there one thing that made Trump so popular with born-again Christians?
I wish I had a good answer to that. All I know is that fundamentalists love Trump because they are hateful, vindictive, racist, full of rage, and they want everybody who isn't them or like them to suffer as much as possible.
Ninja edit: To this point - I haven't seen even a half-assed article that explains why. I might google to see if I can find a concise article that provides a possible answer.
I scanned three articles and I read ~15% of a very long article. As I expected - all I found was obvious stuff that anybody with a brain already knows - the fundamentalists have a desire for a "strongman" that will get them what they want and that politics is "transactional"
Maybe it basically comes down to one word: abortion.
Trump was the only GOP 2016 candidate who said it plainly. If you vote for me - I will appoint justices to end Roe vs Wade. Although Trump surely called them "judges". His promise was enough for the fundamentalists to go fully mask off and to stop even pretending they believed in stuff like love thy neighbor. Trump was their guy from then on and they just ignored the fact is an utterly repulsive and vile human being.
He's a biblical figure of destruction and rebirth, like a great flood. they had a specific gentile king who fought on behalf of the jews, I think a sumerian one?
George Bush made religion central to his identity and had a redemption arc (finding god after a wayward life), which translates well with evangelicals. But: Was there one thing that made Trump so popular with born-again Christians? Like the non Q-brained ones.
Trump made them feel like they were in charge again. So much white reaction can be tied to their loss of power and material benefits (i.e. privilege) as the country becomes less religious and less white. Conservative white folks have always held the favor of capital, but in recent years capital has been trying to expand who gets to be included (note the fervor of white reaction against largely performative acts of support for LGBTQ causes from corporations). And privilege is a zero sum game. Trump was always signaling to religious white folks that he was gonna do things that would let them regain a feeling of superiority, usually by hurting the “right” people.
I wish I had a good answer to that. All I know is that fundamentalists love Trump because they are hateful, vindictive, racist, full of rage, and they want everybody who isn't them or like them to suffer as much as possible.
Ninja edit: To this point - I haven't seen even a half-assed article that explains why. I might google to see if I can find a concise article that provides a possible answer.
I scanned three articles and I read ~15% of a very long article. As I expected - all I found was obvious stuff that anybody with a brain already knows - the fundamentalists have a desire for a "strongman" that will get them what they want and that politics is "transactional"
This is the very long article and it seemed very promising - archive.today • Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump - Rolling Stone. But I stopped reading when I got to this sentence...
I don't care about the writer. I want him to talk about himself as a person of faith. I don't care. I want him to answer his own goddamned question!
Thanks for doing that and giving a great answer :fidel-salute:
Maybe it basically comes down to one word: abortion.
Trump was the only GOP 2016 candidate who said it plainly. If you vote for me - I will appoint justices to end Roe vs Wade. Although Trump surely called them "judges". His promise was enough for the fundamentalists to go fully mask off and to stop even pretending they believed in stuff like love thy neighbor. Trump was their guy from then on and they just ignored the fact is an utterly repulsive and vile human being.
He delivered on that too.
He's a biblical figure of destruction and rebirth, like a great flood. they had a specific gentile king who fought on behalf of the jews, I think a sumerian one?