Why Trump has been able to get away with it: in a word, religion

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5. Spiritual is better than religious

Amen brother. One of the more insidious aspects of these problems is the backfire effect that reinforces false beliefs when a person is confronted with facts contrary to their beliefs. That's why I recommend creating A Spiritual Association for the Transcendence of Religion.

Here's some good news. The demographics look favorable. Evangelicals are about 25% of the US population and their numbers are diminishing while about 24% of the population are unaffiliated with any religion and growing at a rate six times faster than the evangelical base erodes.