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lees1975

(6,185 posts)
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 02:50 PM Dec 2021

Trump must think his white Evangelical supporters are easy marks

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/12/using-christian-faith-as-political-prop.html

Remember Trump's walk across Lafayette Park from the White House to St. John's Church during the protests over the murder of George Floyd? It was to impress his right wing religious supporters and to make him look "spiritual." So, he chose a liberal mainline Protestant church, the kind Evangelicals publicly loathe and criticize, and then posed with a Bible translation, the Revised Standard Version, popular among liberal, mainline Protestants that Evangelicals loathe. So Trump either thinks they're just dumb as a stick or he didn't know the difference and no one told him.

It's worth a laugh.
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Trump must think his white Evangelical supporters are easy marks (Original Post) lees1975 Dec 2021 OP
Looking from the outside . . . Lovie777 Dec 2021 #1
"easy marks" Pantagruel Dec 2021 #2
A) Trump didn't know the difference CanonRay Dec 2021 #3
Seriously, if Trump held up a book of Mad Libs in front of a 7-11... Girard442 Dec 2021 #4
Evangelicals are raised to worship the head of the patriachy over God. OhZone Dec 2021 #5
That's the easiest conclusion he's ever reached. BlueTsunami2018 Dec 2021 #6
Yep, Trump doesn't know crap about their religion then to use it as another tool. He's the RKP5637 Dec 2021 #7
That's one thing prodigitalson Dec 2021 #8
Known knowns. Having been steeped in the protocol growing up. czarjak Dec 2021 #9

Lovie777

(15,664 posts)
1. Looking from the outside . . .
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 02:53 PM
Dec 2021

I would say yes, shit they have supported him since day one and especially calling him their GAWD's choosen one.

 

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
2. "easy marks"
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 02:56 PM
Dec 2021

These folks define themselves by a book of such questionable authorship as to be a worthless political screed. Yeah, I'd say "easy marks".

Girard442

(6,465 posts)
4. Seriously, if Trump held up a book of Mad Libs in front of a 7-11...
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 03:21 PM
Dec 2021

...and told them it was a Bible and a church, they would buy it.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,119 posts)
6. That's the easiest conclusion he's ever reached.
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 03:50 PM
Dec 2021

Of course they’re easy marks, they were already most of the way there for him before he even appeared on the political scene.

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)
7. Yep, Trump doesn't know crap about their religion then to use it as another tool. He's the
Tue Dec 14, 2021, 03:51 PM
Dec 2021

book on sociopathic narcissistic behavior ... a perfect example!

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