Trump called Iowa evangelicals ‘so-called Christians’ and ‘pieces of shit’, book says
Trump called Iowa evangelicals ‘so-called Christians’ and ‘pieces of shit’, book says
Mockery over ‘Two Corinthians’ slip and endorsement battles in 2016 echo in 2024 race as Republican contenders seek first win
Isn't that his base?
74One thing Maga has distinguished is the difference between Christians and Maga Christians.
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Doesn't matter. They'll still vote for him.
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Huh, guess I actually agree with Trump about something.
29I agreed with Trump twice recently.
Once when he said he was being treated unfairly. I agree. It's unfair that he gets to walk free when anyone else facing a fraction of his charges would be in jail awaiting trial.
The second time was when he declared that the threat to America came from within. I agreed with this, but disagreed with the source. He meant the left, but the threat really comes from what he sees when he looks in a mirror (and his MAGA followers).
25Was just coming here to say it lmao
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They'll still follow him into the maw of hell. They love the abuse.
25They won't believe this anyway as it's "a lie from a book, probably written by communist vermin."
Hell if it was a video of him saying it then it would be a "deepfake" or they would argue that hes talking about "liberal evangelicals."
19They've already rationalized supporting Trump by declaring that God is using Trump as a flawed vessel to bring about everything they want.
Once you get that far, it's not hard to justify anything else. Perhaps God had him say this as a test to see if anyone wasn't truly committed to God and would abandon Trump. Only the truly faithful would ignore everything Trump says and does and support him blindly!
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In his 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", cultural theorist Umberto Eco lists fourteen general properties of fascist ideology. ...
- "Contempt for the weak", which is uncomfortably married to a chauvinistic popular elitism, in which every member of society is superior to outsiders by virtue of belonging to the in-group. Eco sees in these attitudes the root of a deep tension in the fundamentally hierarchical structure of fascist polities, as they encourage leaders to despise their underlings, up to the ultimate leader, who holds the whole country in contempt for having allowed him to overtake it by force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism
See also:
24I can't really blame him. I don't want anything to do with them either.
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Evangelicals love a corrupt, abusive leader to lead them astray while fleecing their pockets.
21Just Iowa evangelicals?
20He publicly said he 'likes soldiers who didn't get captured.'
There's nothing he can do to turn his people off.
20Oddly, I agree. 🤷♂️
17I really never thought I’d agree with Trump but here we are.
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Won't change a single voter's mind.
17Of course not, they’ve been trained to think that anything that contradicts their beliefs is “fake”.
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Well, since they're pieces of shit, of course they'll still vote for him.
16Well, he wasn't wrong
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10In 2023, any trump loving evangelicals are too stupid/stubborn/brainwashed and will continue support. You can't make stupid people smart, you can't make bad people good. You can only figure out how to not let them take you down with them.
8Why do you have to do this to me? Eight years I've had to hear about him constantly. If that keeps up after he's dead I'm going to go live in the woods.
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They'll hump his leg even harder.
10They won’t hear about it and if they do, the knee-jerk fake news accusations will protect him from any consequences. Trump has been saying this shit forever. He hates his followers (from ‘20: Trump Has Called His Supporters ‘Disgusting.’ Do They Care?,) he hates injured vets (or vets at all for that matter, “I don’t understand, what was in it for them?”)
And yet, the almost all of the people these things should impact will never see or believe it, the rest of us fucking know. Why continue to post this shit, it’s not even good schadenfreudez
But if it helps even one moron, okay I guess.
9A broken (analog) clock can still be right twice a day.
9That will be all the other Evangelicals in Iowa - Some of them really aren’t doing their bit to enable the rapture.
But yeah. They don’t read either.
8Prediction, they think trump is the messiah and don’t care.
7If they could read any other book, they’d be very upset about this I bet.
7Lol at the implication they've read their holy book
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the heat of the Republican primary of 2016, Donald Trump called evangelical supporters of his rival Ted Cruz “so-called Christians” and “real pieces of shit”, a new book says.
The new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, by Tim Alberta, an influential reporter and staff writer for the Atlantic, will be published on 5 December.
Early in the book, Alberta describes fallout from an event at Liberty University, the evangelical college in Virginia, shortly before the Iowa vote in January 2016.
As candidates jockeyed for support from evangelicals, a powerful bloc in any Republican election, Trump was asked to name his favourite Bible verse.
Trump has maintained that status despite having been impeached twice (the second for inciting the deadly January 6 attack on Congress) and despite facing 91 criminal charges (34 for hush-money payments to a porn star) and civil threats including a case arising from a rape allegation a judge called “substantially true”.
Evangelicals remain the dominant bloc in Iowa, 55% of respondents to an NBC News/Des Moines Register poll in August identifying as “devoutly religious”.
The original article contains 718 words, the summary contains 188 words. Saved 74%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
7Why is this not plastered on 500 billboards on Iowa interstates then?
7It doesn't confirm the target audience's biases so they'll just ignore it
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Will the supporters read the book though ? Most likely not.
7Lol you think they can read? Giving them too much credit.
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