Some critics see Trump's behavior as un-Christian. His conservative Christian backers see a hero
For eight years, Donald Trump has managed to secure the support of many evangelical and conservative Christians despite behavior that often seemed at odds with teachings espoused by Christ in the Gospels.
If some observers initially viewed this as an unsustainable alliance, it’s different now.
Certain achievements during Trump’s presidency – notably appointments that shifted the Supreme Court to the right – have solidified that support. He’s now the clear front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, even after he recently was found liable for sexually abusing a New York woman in 1996 and was indicted in a criminal case related to hush money payments to a porn actress.
Robert Jeffress, pastor of an evangelical megachurch in Dallas, has been a staunch supporter of Trump since his first campaign for president and is sticking by him even as rivals like South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former Vice President Mike Pence tout their Christian faith.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-evangelicals-christians-politics-jesus-2024-election-2850284ccf3e7155273131b7344a0dd0
This is why I can't take most religionists seriously. I know no one's perfect but Trump doesn't even try.
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I do not want to live in a fucking authoritarian theocracy. I do not support Trump, Orban, Johnson, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, or any of Putin's other minions. I do not get this mentality. They scream about freedoms, but in the next breath they say things that would make Josef Stalin go "are you insane?". Fuck all of that shit. 
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