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8. "nothing" is an overstatement. He united and validated them, he's the accelerant, "God's strongman"
Fri Jun 4, 2021, 08:09 AM
Jun 2021

as the excellent Sarah Posner put it in her book "Unholy:Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump." She clearly lays out how the last five decades or so prepared the way for Trump, so I don't disagree with in the main. But they were waiting for their King David, (flawed but God used him for his own purposes in evangelical-speak) and they found him. That's why it's virtually impossible to sway his base, because they're predominantly white evangelicals looking for Trump to bring on the second coming.

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