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Trump must think his white Evangelical supporters are easy marks
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2021/12/using-christian-faith-as-political-prop.htmlRemember 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
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Lovie777
(15,664 posts)1. Looking from the outside . . .
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"
These folks define themselves by a book of such questionable authorship as to be a worthless political screed. Yeah, I'd say "easy marks".
CanonRay
(14,980 posts)3. A) Trump didn't know the difference
B) His followers are dumber than dogshit
Girard442
(6,465 posts)4. Seriously, if Trump held up a book of Mad Libs in front of a 7-11...
...and told them it was a Bible and a church, they would buy it.
OhZone
(3,216 posts)5. Evangelicals are raised to worship the head of the patriachy over God.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,119 posts)6. That's the easiest conclusion he's ever reached.
Of course theyre 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
book on sociopathic narcissistic behavior ... a perfect example!
prodigitalson
(3,004 posts)8. That's one thing
he is right about.
czarjak
(12,571 posts)9. Known knowns. Having been steeped in the protocol growing up.