William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: "Despite Trump being about as un-Christian as a person can get — a liar, a cheat, a ...
"Despite Trump being about as un-Christian as a person can get — a liar, a cheat, a philanderer — he won more than three-quarters of white Evangelical voters in 2020, and closer to 80% in 2016. This has sometimes been treated by the press as some sort of mystery, but it’s really not: With fundamentalist religious beliefs also comes a skepticism of democracy and democratic norms."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #evangelicals #fundamentalists #authoritarianism
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https://jill.substack.com/p/dont-flirt-with-fundamentalistsPublished at
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