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In reply to the discussion: To all those fawning over the Christianity Today article [View all]eppur_se_muova
(36,260 posts)68. Evangelicals favored 45 because they like his "pro-life" and "pro-religious freedom" views ...
... which, of course, he doesn't actually have, but he's willing to claim he has to get their votes. In other words, he wants to oppress the same people they want to oppress, and deny the same rights they want to deny, so he's useful to them. Whether he's profoundly flawed or not doesn't matter too much, apparently.
The author of the editorial was interviewed on NPR this morning and made it sound like he was really taking a principled stand, until you reflected on what he actually said. If he had only added that he turned away from 45 because of the obvious hypocrisy and cynicism, he might have qualified for the Putzer Prize in Unconcious Irony.
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Yes. CT needs to first establish its anti-D cred with its readers. It does that by lying.
stopbush
Dec 2019
#5
I imagine there are some Ds who read CT. Are they sitting at home agreeing that
stopbush
Dec 2019
#11
They're not starting to turn, they got their judges and now they're done with him. IT's not like
uponit7771
Dec 2019
#62
Of course the orange abomination released his usual tweet attack on the magazine
captain queeg
Dec 2019
#4
Indeed. Life is generally unfair to billionaires. The rest of us need to have pity
stopbush
Dec 2019
#9
I won't even waste my fucking time . . . But, call me a "fawner." I'll cop to it.
NBachers
Dec 2019
#17
I'm glad they said it. It shows they are genuinely trying to deprogram the cult
Azathoth
Dec 2019
#27
Not only that but those sentences that we object to will only increase the impact to
grantcart
Dec 2019
#48
Evangelicals favored 45 because they like his "pro-life" and "pro-religious freedom" views ...
eppur_se_muova
Dec 2019
#68