Good news: Trumps evangelical support is slipping

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

However, the major religious shift in his approval ratings has occurred among non-evangelical Christians, Protestant and Catholic. In March, they approved of Trump’s performance 58 percent to 40 percent. Now, they disapprove of it 56 percent to 40 percent.

To read more:

http://religionnews.com/2017/08/09/trumps-evangelical-support-is-slipping/

[cyclonefence]

1. Wait a minute

"...the major religious shift in his approval ratings has occurred among non-evangelical Christians..."

[guillaumeb]

2. From the article:

In March, evangelicals approved of the job Donald Trump was doing 63 percent to 32 percent, according to a Politico/Daily Caller survey. Five months later, the margin has shrunk by more than half, to 56-42.

[AtheistCrusader]

3. Interesting. Yesterday's 'Fire and Fury' tweet to NK was a direct callout to Evangelicals.

I wonder if it will produce the desired result.

[guillaumeb]

4. An excellent question.

Will they (finally) see through him?

[Bretton Garcia]

15. Is Trump Satan, Bill Maher asked evangelicals recently

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/345438-maher-compares-trump-to-father-of-lies-satan

Since Trump lies a lot, and Satan is the "father of lies."

Possibly Maher, said to be an atheist, was borrowing from our own DU conversation on this earlier.

[Lordquinton]

5. But do they still support the party?

Unless their support for Republicans in general is slipping, it doesn't matter too much what they think of trump, sadly.

[guillaumeb]

6. True. Although "Trumpism" is a big part of what the modern GOP represents.

[Lordquinton]

7. He is losing support

but his policies aren't. He's even making the rest of them look better in comparison.

This, of course, will lead to trumper pandering to the evangelicals in new and exciting ways.

[guillaumeb]

9. A nice distinction.

And I feel it is a repudiation of Trump's tactics rather than any repudiation of goals.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Still more popular among Christians than Obama was in 2014

http://www.gallup.com/poll/172442/muslims-approving-obama-mormons-least.aspx

Gallup, in 2014, had Catholic approval of Obama at 44%, Protestant/Other Christian 37% - whole country 43%. This ( http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015d-c4ae-d494-a77f-e6be72bd0000 ) has Trump at Catholic 44%,Protestant 49%, whole country 40%.

Never let it be said that American Protestants are keen judges of character.

[guillaumeb]

10. We can only speculate as to why that is.

O course it cannot be racism because the US is a post-racial society.

[Mariana]

11. In a lot of cases, Preacher was telling them to hate Obama.

And today, Preacher is telling them they should love and support Trump.

[guillaumeb]

12. That is correct. And such political speeches from the pulpit should be cause for losing their

tax-exempt status.

[Mariana]

13. It should, but it isn't happening.

And it isn't likely to happen any time soon. Preacher is pretty much free to convey his opinions about political figures to the congregation. If he believes Obama is an agent of Satan, he can preach that. If he believes Trump is God's own president and savior of American Christianity, he can preach that too. No one is going to stop him.

[guillaumeb]

14. True. There is no will to enforce the law in this matter. eom