“We know his goal is to make America great again,” a woman said. “It’s on his hat."

[kpete]

Trump-ward, Christian Soldiers?

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Let me get this straight. If I want the admiration and blessings of the most flamboyant, judgmental Christians in America, I should marry three times, do a queasy-making amount of sexual boasting, verbally degrade women, talk trash about pretty much everyone else while I’m at it, encourage gamblers to hemorrhage their savings in casinos bearing my name and crow incessantly about how much money I’ve amassed?


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Maybe it’s Trump’s jingoism they adore. They venerated Ronald Reagan though he’d divorced, remarried and spent much of his career in the godless clutch of Hollywood.

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Or maybe his pompadour has mesmerized them. It could, in the right wind, be mistaken for a halo.

I’m grasping at straws, because there’s no sense in the fact that many of the people who most frequently espouse the Christian spirit then proceed to vilify immigrants, demonize minorities and line up behind a candidate who’s a one-man master class in such misanthropy.





MORE HERE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/26/opinion/frank-bruni-trump-ward-christian-soldiers.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region%C2%AEion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

[a kennedy]

1. I know, I just don't get it......I read this article, and kinda got a sense of why......

http://fusion.net/story/187534/do-people-really-want-donald-trump-to-be-president/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fusion8&utm_content=8&utm_term=fusion-newsletter-188057