But evangelical leaders warn that’s no guarantee their rank and file will stay involved in politics if Republicans abandon socially conservative issues, like abortion and gay marriage, even as they lean in on others, like banning transgender kids from participating in youth sports. In July, Trump nearly sparked a platform fight at the Republican National Convention over language that couched abortion as primarily in the hands of the states, a position anti-abortion advocates almost uniformly oppose.

We can only hope that he continues to piss them off and they abandon him.

  • meticulousmind
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    242 months ago

    Since the beginning of this whole debacle, the most perplexing curiosity to me is how so many succeptable individuals have come to view him as this infallible figure. The basic tenents of being objective and critical in order to make informed decisions seem to have been thrown directly out the window. It’s the cultivation of willful ignorance and flat out denialism; the opposite of academia.

    I’m still in disbelief that so many are being fooled by such a obviously phony character. I just don’t get it. However, I refuse to give up on the idea that we ARE better than this. We ARE smarter than this. Get this fucking clown out of here already, I’m sick of the name and the face.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      172 months ago

      The basic tenents of being objective and critical in order to make informed decisions seem to have been thrown directly out the window.

      You realize you’re talking about evangelicals, right? Critical thinking is literally against their religion.