The former politics editor of an evangelical publication who recently quit over the magazine’s pro-Trump stance likened his former employer to the right-wing news site Breitbart.
“I’m worried now that without me there, that, you know, it will no longer be a place that presents the alternative view to team Trump and the evangelicals who support him,”
Well it’s good to feel important I guess. Did he really think his publication was an “alternate view”? If you have 50 employees and only one is uncomfortable with pledging loyalty to Trump, it never was an alternate view. Shep Smith could tell you that one voice cannot change the dominant narrative. He will do well to seek out a better job. Maybe he and Shep can work together.
It’s hard to know if this is truly a sign that evangelical support for Trump is starting to collapse. It’s ominous, though. Trump has always been a hard sell to evangelicals who truly believe (as opposed to those just pretending to be evangelicals so as to profit from them). Once the true believers start to open their eyes, it will be hard for the con artists within the movement to maintain their support for Trump for fear of being exposed for what they really are. That would truly spell the end for Trump.
Why does a religious magazine need a politics editor? Particularly a Christian magazine. Whatever happened to rendering unto Caesar?
The thing is, Trump’s base is not expanding, and it’s hard to see how it can (unless the Democratic nominee turns off a lot of people–either through what s/he says or what Trump flings at him/her). So everyone who leaves Trump’s camp reduces the size of his support.
Not necessary for a collapse to occur. More akin to the percentage-shaving that Trump’s dirt campaigns against HRC, and now Biden might cause. If these publicly stated opinions give pause to 5% or 10% of evangelical voters-- voting otherwise, or not at all? These comments will have bearing on the General Election.
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“We all agreed back then and understood who Donald Trump was,” Nazworth said. “I didn’t change my mind about Donald Trump, but some of the other editors did.”
Nazworth is late to the game of realizing that evangelicals view Trump as chosen by God and any criticism is heresy.
It’s been my experience that evangelicals are some of the most gullible people on Earth. They’ll follow whomever they’re told to follow - whether that’s Jim and Tammy Faye, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggert or donald j. trump. Time and time again we see these same sheep being fleeced by their next Dear Leader. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
All good theocracies need a Bureau of Political Correctness
Why doesn’t anyone do anything about the Mega Churches and little pastoral churches and churches of every size telling their flocks how to vote? They do it at every gathering and twice on Sunday. It’s not like it’s some secret, they do it all the time and have forever.
Many churches have proven themselves to be very profitable businesses with thousands of shareholders.
Tax the motherfucking sheep!
Depends.
If the true evangelicals are those who follow Junior Falwell and Franklin Graham, then they don’t have a problem with this era.
Doing so is akin to messing with a ‘third rail’.
Actually more like Judas’ kiss, but in a good way.
To keep it all tax free? That’s probably worth billions over time, and if Graham, Jr and Falwell, Jr. have taught us anything -it’s always about the Benjamins, when it’s not about the pool boys.
So much for being the clear-eyed, moral absolutists they thought they were when they went after Bill Clinton.
Yup. There’s a good reason he went to an evangelical church on Christmas Day, and it wasn’t for the Christmas tree cupcakes. He’s got work to do to shore up his base. Not a great place to be as we enter an election year, especially as Impeachment still looms like the ghost of Christmas tomorrow.
The good thing is a debate has been opened up among the evangelical fruitcakes. A few have changed their thinking where previously such discussion has been absolutely verboten and that has some potential for changing others.
Depends on which party Caesar is affiliated with and whether it permits women to control their own reproductive choices.
Yup. Whatever IMPOTUS or McConnovich say or do, I figure the opposite is what they actually fear. For eg. McCon and IMP want the articles speeded to the senate because they want it done and dusted before more shit oozes out. They know there is a lot more shit under Fat Nixon’s rock.