Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.
Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.
Other people will rightly focus on the evangelical part, but I want to emphasize how important “whiteness” is to the equation. Black Christians don’t do this shit.
The through-line of Trump support is white supremacy. And white evangelical Christianity has a well known problem with white supremacy and white/Christian nationalism.
It’s vexing why Christians would admire Trump in the first place because he’s just about the opposite of everything they claim to value. But if you think of them as white supremacists first, everything makes perfect sense.
100%. It’s unfortunate that more attention isn’t paid to the “Southern Strategy” - started by Nixon but honed and perfected by Reagan. It was basically a massive counter-revolution where whites hated that black Americans were granted civil rights, marginally improved economic standing, and more broadly there’s at least an attempt to put whites and blacks on an equal footing. This sort of white supremacy was sort of laundered through evangelical Christianity but yes, it’s whiteness first. The “Moral Majority” began as movement to fight the government from removing the tax-exempt status for private Christian schools that practiced racial segregation, for example. While white evangelical Christianity does predate the reaction to the Civil Rights movement, I think it’s fair to say that this white supremacy is the foundation for modern white evangelicalism.
The southern strategy was most honed by Bill Clinton. He, (and Hillary) were absolute ninjas with the southern strategy. “Super predator” anyone? Nixon and Reagan told people what they wanted to hear. Clinton’s politics swung a scythe through communities of color and incarcerated people en masse. Just look at the actual numbers. This is not a soapbox, it’s a history lesson. And you know was right there by his side? Blue dog Joe Biden and prosecutor Kamala Harris.
serious, Its time and time again that it needs to be said loud and clear, no one need to hear that both sides BS, Yes we still have many dinosaurs in office that are not perfect and do not have an absolute clean past. But lets not keep throwing the baby out with the bath water like 2024 election, thank the sky daddies and mommies that folks like you didn’t both sides this last election .
Clinton didn’t have clean hands, but compared to what Nixon and Reagan did, it was small potatoes.
The War on Drugs devastated not only white stoners, but minority communities. So did attacks on social services. Both originated long before Bubba arrived on the scene.
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