You Can't Get Conservative White Women To Change Their Minds

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16. I respectfully disagree

I do acknowledge that there are millions of white fundies who are not a priori racist, but the majority of them are, IMHO. They knowingly support a white nationalist carnival barker in Trump, and a Republican party that is openly racist to a staggering degree.

If they only just wanted a Christian nation, one would think they would LOVE Latinx people to pour in, as they have amongst the highest percentage of group rates in terms of being Christians.

Trump doesn't use a dog whistle, he uses a bullhorn. 80% of Evangelicals (more in some states) vote for vermin like the neo-Nazi-lite Steve King. That asshole in Virginia, Corey Stewart got 40% of the total vote, DeSantis WON in Florida and he is an open race baiter and white nationalist.

Hell ART JONES, a REAL, actual Nazi got 26% of the vote in Illinois. And he was running against the worst Democrat in Congress, the pro-life, anti-immigrant (voted against the Dream Act and for Republican border security bills), anti Obamacare, anti LGBTQ (voted for DOMA and is openly against gay marriage), anti-Obama himself (he refused to endorse him) anti stem cell research, etc etc Dan Lipinski.

Nazi Running for Congress Wants You to Know He's So Much More Than Just a Nazi

https://splinternews.com/nazi-running-for-congress-wants-you-to-know-hes-so-much-1827976962


56,000 voters in Illinois House district preferred Holocaust denier

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/11/07/holocaust-denier-neo-nazi-arthur-jones-chicago-illinois-dan-lipinski/1918933002/

CHICAGO – More than 56,000 voters in a Chicago-area congressional district cast votes Tuesday for an avowed Nazi and Holocaust denier.

Self-proclaimed Nazi Arthur Jones, running as a Republican, managed more than a quarter of the vote against Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski in the district that includes parts of Chicago’s South Side and several neighboring suburbs.



The racial demons that help explain evangelical support for Trump

https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/4/30/17301282/race-evangelicals-trump-support-gerson-atlantic-sexism-segregation-south


White evangelical Protestants continue to approve of President Donald Trump at about twice the rate of the general public, according to a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute. Indeed, the figure is at an all-time high, with some 75 percent expressing a positive view as of March. Debating the question of why white evangelicals hold so fast for Trump has become a pastime for commentators, given that the president’s values and behavior would appear to be anathema to conservative Christians.

Among political evangelicals, at one ideological pole stand those who purport to see a seamless connection between their agenda and that of the current chief executive. “I think evangelicals have found their dream president,” Jerry Falwell Jr. gushed last May. An oft-heard variation on this view is that Trump may be a sinner, but he’s one chosen by God for a providential mission. But then there are the prominent hand-wringers. Veteran evangelical writers like Michael Gerson, David French, and Stephen Mansfield have been wrestling with the damage this strategic partnership may be doing to a once-great religious tradition.

It is an abandonment of the evangelical path, these writers argue — to varying degrees and with different emphases — for believers who claim to care about the poor, the suffering, and the outcast, not to mention sexual morality and civic virtue, to line up behind a belligerent boor who bullies women, Mexicans, and Muslims and who has a manifestly feeble understanding of religious texts and history. It’s not that evangelicals are personally prejudiced, these writers claim; nonetheless, they find it disturbing that such voters would overlook Trump’s racism and misogyny for short-term political gains.

But these sympathetic critics fail to grapple with the idea that Trump’s racism and misogyny might actually resonate with the evangelical base, which happens to constitute about 35 percent of the GOP coalition. In fact, racism and intolerance are more woven into the fabric of evangelicalism than these Christian critics care to accept.

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