{"id":5118,"date":"2016-11-16T08:09:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T13:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2016-11-16T08:09:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T13:09:21","slug":"trump-and-evangelicals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=5118","title":{"rendered":"Trump and evangelicals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A piece in the Washington Post<\/a><\/i> affirms what I’ve been saying all week: It was evangelical voters who made Trump the Republican nominee, and delivered him to the front door of the White House.<\/p>\n

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White evangelicals were so key for Trump that, had no white evangelicals voted, Clinton would have won in a landslide, 59 percent to 35 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And consider these remarks by a Virginia schoolteacher:<\/p>\n

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The morning after the election, Aller said, a black second-grader came into her school and declared, \u201cTrump was elected, so we\u2019re moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aller said she responded, \u201cWe\u2019re going to miss you<\/span>. Let me know when your last day is. We\u2019ll throw you a goodbye party.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says she\u2019s sure the boy knew she was joking<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh? This nitwit unembarrassedly told a reporter that she told a second grader she was glad to be rid of him? Let’s all hope that a nuance got lost in the telling.<\/p>\n

But let’s all be clearheaded, too: Evangelicals — you know, the Values Voters<\/i> — own the eruptions of malice that have swept the country over the past week. Let there be no confusion about this, either: For every one of the hundreds of stories we’re seen on the Web or in the local newspaper, there are another dozen instances whose victim quietly went home enraged and weeping.<\/p>\n

As I said last week, the protestors ought to be assembling in front of churches: That is where the sickness was and continues to be nourished.<\/p>\n

One more thing: Trump has explicitly promised to implement a religious test as a condition of admittance to this country — and that, all on its own, should have been a deal breaker for people who can’t stop mewling about ‘religious liberty.’ Could we please be done with pretending these characters are anything but childish, self-absorbed hypocrites?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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