Moore, Trump and the Right’s New Religion
- 6 years ago
Moore, Trump and the Right’s New Religion
Trump was a walking, talking rebuke of everything the Christian right had ever told me
that it stood for, and yet Republican voters either held their noses or thrust their fists in the air and voted for him anyway.
You can peg any number of moments in recent history when the objective seemed to change for the members of the religious right, where they swallowed all pride and principle to secure power and vent anger,
but for me there is none more glaring than the embrace of Donald Trump.
3: Get them registered to vote.”
The religious activism was in many ways a direct response to the strides made in the 1960s
and 1970s on racial equality, women’s rights and gay rights.
Trump was a walking, talking rebuke of everything the Christian right had ever told me
that it stood for, and yet Republican voters either held their noses or thrust their fists in the air and voted for him anyway.
You can peg any number of moments in recent history when the objective seemed to change for the members of the religious right, where they swallowed all pride and principle to secure power and vent anger,
but for me there is none more glaring than the embrace of Donald Trump.
3: Get them registered to vote.”
The religious activism was in many ways a direct response to the strides made in the 1960s
and 1970s on racial equality, women’s rights and gay rights.