Why it matters that Trump keeps talking about the 'Final Battle'

[LetMyPeopleVote]

TFG is playing to the religious nut cases in his base

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/matters-trump-keeps-talking-final-battle-rcna133941

But what matters about the campaign commercial is the audio that plays while the Republican is seen walking:

“This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the Deep State. We will expel the war mongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists; we will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will route the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

Most of the rhetoric was boilerplate, though it was his first five words that stood out as notable: “This is the final battle.”,,,,,

But there’s a bit more to it than that. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump had a terrific piece along these lines a couple of months ago:

If your immediate point of reference for that [“final battle”] phrase wasn’t to the Book of Revelation’s depiction of the apocalypse, you are probably not a Trump supporter. (A 2012 poll from PRRI found that the religious group most likely to say that the end times as predicted in Revelation would occur during their lives was evangelicals.)

Noting the invocation at a Trump rally in Iowa in November, Bump highlighted the rhetoric from a conservative Baptist preacher, who insisted that “lies, corruption, and propaganda are driving civilization to ruins.”....

It’s a safe bet that when the Republican frontrunner makes references to “the final battle,” that young evangelist hears something different than secular audiences hear.

[prodigitalson]

1. I don't think one has to be an evangelical to understand it's apocolyptic

or that he stirring up the evangelicals and the Qrazies

[Tales_in_3Frames]

2. Really doubling down on being the 'anti-christ'

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[Brother Buzz]

5. You will get more traffic if you post the image as a jpg or pdf, and include your link

DUers, generally, are leary of clicking a link to an unknown source.

Just an idea

[bdamomma]

3. That pose

he has his chin up, a real wanna be dic...tator. What a POS, don't let this guy get in again, or there' will be a "Little America" in Canada. Anyone who watches Handmaids Tale will understand.

[Quixote1818]

4. 38% of the Republican base is evangelicals. Don't they already show up anyways? nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. TFG ran a commercial based on G-d creating TFG

This is the original TFG commercial

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I personally love this parody of this commercial

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[Ohioboy]

15. That parody was hilarious!

I'm going to have to watch it again because I was laughing so hard I missed most of it the first time.

[malaise]

7. How will the fascist Slobfather cast out

Himself?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Here are some more Final Battle ads from TFG

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[gratuitous]

12. He's not just saying this for the End-Timers

The defendant is dead serious about all this rage and retribution, and his followers fervently want it to happen.

[chouchou]

9. I absolutely love this.

"The speech of Trump and the Baptist preacher, who insisted that “lies, corruption, and propaganda are driving civilization to ruins.”....

Ah Preacher?..the source of all that Mayhem is standing right next to you.

[ashredux]

10. Trump being fed this stuff. He doesn't know it, he doesn't understand the implications.He just wants to stay out of jail

[meow2u3]

11. I saw the Christofascst dog whistle coming

Trump is pulling his con on evangelicals and they're swallowing his lies whole.

What we have to do is to decode the dog whistle religious bigotry.

[spike jones]

13. American Fascists- the Christian right and the war on America. more true today than when written 17 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fascists

[odins folly]

14. Seems to me

The bible was pretty clear about describing what the antichrist would be and how he would come about. I’m pretty certain it describes shitbag to a T. If they would only, actually read their book, but the have been fed so much propaganda BS over the last 40 or so years…..

There is no rational explanation to why the follow and adore and worship him, they are a cult of hate of everything and everyone not like them…..

[Mariana]

17. Trump can't be the Antichrist as described the the Revelation.

The Antichrist is supposed to be loved and worshiped by the whole world. Trump can't even get the majority of the votes in his own country.

[odins folly]

19. Yes, the "whole world"

At the time the final book was supposed to have been written, the Roman Empire surrounding the Mediterranean was the “whole world” and contained about 75 million, so…….

These fuckers think “they” are the whole world anyway. This is why they claim his 74 million were “disenfranchised” by his loss, and yet “they” would disenfranchise the 81 million who voted for Joe because you know… things….

[Warpy]

16. I don't suppose the verse about the false prophets in the latter days

is one they've ever bothered to read. Their crackpot preachers and megachurch grifters would discourage it.

[FakeNoose]

18. It's his newest dog whistle to the "religious right"

Other than that, he's got nothing!

[UTUSN]

20. Shucks. Thought he was saying/announcing it is *his*

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Ben Carson compares TFG to King David

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