Strangest Hot Take of the Day: Why Evangelicals Like Trump

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http://religiondispatches.org/strangest-hot-take-of-the-day-why-evangelicals-like-trump/

By Sarah Posner July 23, 2015

The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody wants to tell you why evangelicals like Donald Trump. It’s a good try, but it’s not very convincing.

Brody has spent many years interviewing presidential candidates, pressing them for answers on evangelical hot button issues—abortion, same-sex marriage, religious liberty. His program and his blog are the go-to place for finding out where the candidates stand, and what they will say when they know they are speaking directly to an evangelical audience.

I would have expected Brody to write a post telling us why evangelicals don’t like Trump: his glib formulation of forgiveness, his reference to “my little cracker” (that would be communion), and perhaps some of the reasons Russell Moore and Samuel Rodriguez laid out the other day when they critiqued him in the Wall Street Journal. They took aim not just at his anti-immigrant diatribe, but at his weak stances on their key issues.

In the service of explaining what there is of an evangelical attraction to Trump (and, as I wrote earlier this week, it is there, although by no means a majority), Brody portrays Trump as a no-holds-barred honest broker and, therefore, victim of the media. That’s why, he says, evangelicals can relate.

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1. Simple

He spews the same hate filled crap the RW evangelicals believe themselves.

[pinto]

2. Ah, yeah. Trump often does portray himself as a victim as do many of the evangelicals.

I can see the shared perception.