With a comical pandering session, Trump shows how irrelevant the Christian right has become

[joeybee12]

With a comical pandering session, Trump shows how irrelevant the Christian right has become to presidential politics

Yesterday a group of evangelical leaders traveled to New York so that Donald Trump could deliver them the most simplistic, insincere session of pandering they’ve ever witnessed. While it wasn’t the first time Trump has reached out to the Christian right, it provided a vivid illustration of the fact that as an organized and potent force in national politics, the Christian right has faded into nothingness. It now exists for nothing more than to be patted on the head and sent on its way with an encouragement to vote in November.

Here’s how The Post’s Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer described the meeting:

Donald Trump won a standing ovation from hundreds of Christian conservatives who came to New York City on Tuesday with a somewhat skeptical but willing attitude toward a man who has divided their group with comments on women, immigrants and Islam. In his comments, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee said he would end the decades-old ban on tax-exempt groups’ — including churches — politicking, called religious liberty “the No. 1 question,” and promised to appoint antiabortion Supreme Court justices.

“I think maybe that will be my greatest contribution to Christianity — and other religions — is to allow you, when you talk religious liberty, to go and speak openly, and if you like somebody or want somebody to represent you, you should have the right to do it,” Trump said. A ban was put in place by President Lyndon Johnson on tax-exempt groups making explicit political endorsements. Religious leaders in America today, Trump said, “are petrified.”

One has to wonder what they thought when Trump started talking about his “contribution to Christianity” as though he were Martin Luther or something because he’d try to let churches make official political endorsements. It’s hard not to be reminded of the time in January when Trump spoke before Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University to persuade evangelicals to support him. Everyone mocked him for citing “Two Corinthians,” but the really telling moment was when, just after reading the passage, he said, “Is that the one? Is that the one you like? I think that’s the one you like.” At times, Trump’s complete inability to be subtle is a blessing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/06/22/with-a-comical-pandering-session-trump-shows-how-irrelevant-the-christian-right-has-become-to-presidential-politics/

[randome]

1. Every group outside Trump is foreign to him.

The evangelicals. The African-Americans. The poor. The youth.

He transmits his need to see himself as above everyone else and I'm betting it doesn't play well with most, even if they aren't saying so publicly.

[underpants]

2. I thought close to the same thing

They came to him (some wine and dine no doubt) then he used the opportunity to attack Hilkary's religion Snd form a board of advisors. Rice and W just gave them lapel pins and laughed at them after they were gone.