{"id":9274,"date":"2018-11-26T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9274"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:02:57","slug":"scorn-for-evangelical-right-goes-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9274","title":{"rendered":"Scorn for Evangelical Right goes mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soon after the 2016 election, I predicted<\/a> that Donald Trump’s egregious behavior and bad values would work to the disadvantage of his delerious Evangelical Right supporters.<\/p>\n

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Third, 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump, and that will eventually sink into public consciousness, as in, Wait a minute! What are you saying? The church people gave us that piece of sh*t p***y-grabber?!<\/i> Yep, they did \u2014 and that will be the tale of how the Evangelical Right and \u2018movement so-called conservatism\u2019 committed political suicide. They might make some noise, occasionally score a small victory \u2026 but they are done. The Trump administration, with its inevitable serial indecencies and corruptions, is their achievement, and they will never live it down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There has been plenty of frankly contemptuous commentary here and there (right here at Civil Commotion<\/i>, for instance), but now Raw Story<\/a><\/i>, an important media outlet, has published a piece that unambiguously argues that Christianity is being cynically used as a cover for selfish policy-making.<\/p>\n

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In reality, the relationship between Christian piety and support for selfish policies is fairly straightforward. It\u2019s not that being Christian makes you conservative. It\u2019s that being conservative makes being a loud and pious Christian extremely attractive.<\/p>\n

Without Christianity, the underlying mean-spiritedness of conservative policies is simply easier to spot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tide is going out on the Evangelical Right, just as it is on Trump, and nothing can change that because the bone-deep malice and painful stupidity can’t be hidden any longer. Reality always has the last word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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