Donald Trump and the Dawn of the Evangelical-Nationalist Alliance
Our President is a fabulist who believes his own blather, a populist pundit who speaks in generic sweeping statements that can mean pretty much anything to anyone extreme. With his bluster and theater he’s become the single biggest shit poster in US history, drawing millions of narrow minded zealots of all stripes to his stage, and there’s not an evil group that he won’t fawn over or promote to keep his hold on the throat of America.
When Moore spoke to a Friday luncheon sponsored by the American Family Association, he was introduced unapologetically as someone who would put Christianity ahead of the Constitution. When a video played detailing the Ten Commandments saga in Alabama, the room of several hundred retirement-age attendees shook their heads in disgust. And when he took the stage, he stirred the crowd. “It was never about the Ten Commandments; it was about the God who gave the Ten Commandments,” Moore said. “We forget that what they really want to do in this land is remove the knowledge of God. That won’t happen, as far as I can see, because I think the people of God are rising up in this land today. In 2016 we were given a new lease, a new reason, and it’s upon us now.”
Seated at the rear of the room, John and Jill Stabley nodded along. The older married couple from Delaware have attended the Values Voter Summit seven previous times, but this year feels different. “Suddenly hopeful,” Jill says. “We grew up in an era where people were thinking of others, and trying to do the right thing—” John interrupts: “And walking with Christ.” He pauses. “There’s no going back. All these outside people are coming in and tearing us apart.”
By “outside people,” John means immigrants—particularly Muslims, whom he says are undermining the Constitution in pursuit of sharia law. (John believes Barack Obama is a Muslim, and Jill says the Common Core education standards were used to indoctrinate students with Islamic ideology.)
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