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sure of course But there are also plenty of people who have been trying to deny it
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Only by comparison. Despite being 3 entire years older, Biden is suffering dementia to a lesser degree than Trump. Considering their lifestyles, this shouldn't be a surprise.
 
This is not the Age of Enlightenment. Not for the rational of mind.

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Evangelicals’ Trump Worship Looks More Like QAnon Every Day

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyI have watched every Donald Trump rally, interview, and speech since he left the White House in Jan. 2021.It’s certainly been interesting to observe the evolution of his political messaging over that time—as he went from desperately...
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Imagine if Biden had done this. It would be a 2 week front page story on the media. This is like almost to the level of Obama using Dijon mustard or wearing a tan suit.

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This is why republican depravity has completely changed the rules; shifted the Overton window. Trump is so damaged and so ridiculous. He says so many lies and spews so much fascistic rhetoric, that the media to maintain “balance” must ignore some of the worst things ever said by a presidential candidate and focus on the dumbest things by Biden.

It’s all about the horse race. The media needs its clicks. So they water Trump down, ignore all of his many gaffes and horrible and hateful rhetoric, and focus on Biden’s gaffes that he wouldve made 10 or 20 years ago because he’s always been a gaffe machine. Gaffes that while embarrassing, are typically normal of an older person with a stutter. Again, Biden can actually talk sane policy. His administration has been the most productive one in my lifetime. Manufacturing, green energy, expanding health care, infrastructure, student debt forgiveness, foreign policy, etc. the media ignores that Trump’s whole pitch right now is retribution on his political enemies and tax cuts for loyalists.

This is now two democratic presidents now where their administrations have been relatively competent and boring, free of scandal, and so the media in order to generate rage, focuses on the dumbest things. All while ignoring dangerous movements on the right. What Trump is saying about “gutting the deep state” aka replacing non-partisan state employees with loyalists, is dangerous. It’s what authoritarian regimes do. Abandoning Ukraine and our European allies because Trump wants Russia to lose, is insane and might lead us to more war (China, are you hungry for Taiwan? Russia, hungry for some more Baltic states? Maybe a chunk of Poland?)
 
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This is not the Age of Enlightenment. Not for the rational of mind.

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Evangelicals’ Trump Worship Looks More Like QAnon Every Day

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyI have watched every Donald Trump rally, interview, and speech since he left the White House in Jan. 2021.It’s certainly been interesting to observe the evolution of his political messaging over that time—as he went from desperately...
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Good article. White evangelical support of Trump can never be emphasized enough. It’s because they want to maintain the social and political hierarchy of the country. They see gains by women and minorities as threats. They don’t want a multicultural democracy. Equality for those used to privilege see it as discrimination.

I also believe that geography figures into it a lot. Areas that are typically dense with white evangelicals are isolated from real America. These aren’t urban or diverse areas. Many of these people live isolated from those who think or look differently. Their children have long left these areas in the dust, replaced by beer, meth, and grievance. They have completely lost touch with real Americans and real America.
 
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These are some of the best books I’ve read on this subject




And honestly this book has some keen insights into the whataboutism used by Trump and trumpists today. It’s ironic that holocaust deniers and Hitler ball washers have so much in common with Trumpists, Trumper ball washers, and their alternative facts. You see cultist trolls on this very website engage the same strategy every day here:

for some reason the link isn’t working:
Denial (Deborah Lipstadt)
 
Red said:
This is not the Age of Enlightenment. Not for the rational of mind.

news.yahoo.com

Evangelicals’ Trump Worship Looks More Like QAnon Every Day

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyI have watched every Donald Trump rally, interview, and speech since he left the White House in Jan. 2021.It’s certainly been interesting to observe the evolution of his political messaging over that time—as he went from desperately...
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This is insane. Imagine the outrage if a Democratic candidate received these types of prayers from black or Muslim pastors or clerics. Especially Muslim, people would be labeling the Democratic candidate as being in league with a terrorist network. It also provides a rational for trumpers to brush off all of his crimes. They’re not violations of our laws; it’s merely the “satanic deep state” trying to get god’s annointed!

Even though there are different pastors giving these prayers at each rally, the theme generally remains the same—that there are dark, satanic, sinister forces who have taken over the government behind the scenes (the Deep State), and these forces are threatened by the only man capable of defeating them—Donald Trump. Attendees are then typically asked to pray to put a “hedge of protection” around Trump and his family, or to “put the Armor of God” on him to safeguard him, because the agents of the Deep State will stop at nothing to destroy him.
 
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This is insane. Imagine the outrage if a Democratic candidate received these types of prayers from black or Muslim pastors or clerics. Especially Muslim, people would be labeling the Democratic candidate as being in league with a terrorist network. It also provides a rational for trumpers to brush off all of his crimes. They’re not violations of our laws; it’s merely the “satanic deep state” trying to get god’s annointed!

Even though there are different pastors giving these prayers at each rally, the theme generally remains the same—that there are dark, satanic, sinister forces who have taken over the government behind the scenes (the Deep State), and these forces are threatened by the only man capable of defeating them—Donald Trump. Attendees are then typically asked to pray to put a “hedge of protection” around Trump and his family, or to “put the Armor of God” on him to safeguard him, because the agents of the Deep State will stop at nothing to destroy him.
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I think they’re up there with the flat Earthers, and other irrational beliefs, just plain nuts, but, because it’s a “religious faith”, we’re supposed to be cautious in our criticism. And then, of course, in its Christian nationalism component, it can easily support far right narratives, fascist trends, but again, it’s somebody’s “faith”, so were expected to be sensitive to that fact. Hey, when it’s insane, you should be able to just say it, they’re freakin lunatics…
 
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