Why has Trump of all people become the right wing messiah? He’s literally a wet fart in human form

  • Vernon_Tennessee [null/void, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    15 hours ago

    The secret is that liberals love to talk about him more than anyone else. And the more you tell these kinds of people "not to do something " the more theyll want to do it. So when liberals talk about how “dangerous” or whatever he is, theres about half the country who thinks its cool or edgy and votes for him out of spite.

    If supposed Trump haters stopped talking about him for a solid 6 months after 2020, then its likely he wouldnt have made it past the primary.

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      14 hours ago

      Wish these idiots could learn that lesson. This election season has been 2016 on steroids for free negative press on Trump.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    There’s a phrase I once heard to describe Trump, that he’s America’s biggest Small Business Owner, and that sums up why these people fawn over him. Conservatives fundamentally love hierarchy and they want capitalists at the top of that hierarchy, but their vision of the ideal capitalist is not the credentialed CEO reporting to a board representing a collective sea of rich investors, their vision of the capitalist class is a hierarchy of bigger and bigger sea-doo dealership owners.

    The branding of Trump gives them that, that he’s the founder-owner-operator making all the big boy decisions on how to run his company, not a pencil-neck brigade of corporate bureaucrats. To them, he is the correction back to the “real” capitalism and capitalist class.

    • culpritus [any]@hexbear.net
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      17 hours ago

      this

      He embodies the failson mythology that they love via MAGA

      He is the avatar of their opposition to the neolib hellscape they mislabel as socialism/communism, etc. If your ideology is based in Calvinism, anti-communism and anti-woke, then he checks off a lot of boxes.

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        If your ideology is based in Calvinism, anti-communism and anti-woke, then he checks off a lot of boxes.

        Good Old Boys born special and destined for greatness. grillman

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    He’s an extremely wealthy white man who tripped ass forward in to wealth and power, he owns the libs, and he openly commits sexual violence and gets away with it. For Christian Fascists that is basically their Messiah. When you combine the prosperity gospel with fox news brain, patriarchy, and white supremacy then Trump starts to look a lot like god.

    • Runcible [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      19 hours ago

      Maybe 15 years ago I knew someone working on their doctoral thesis for theology & they commented to me that American Protestantism was more about white supremacy than Christianity. It’s always stuck with me.

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        16 hours ago

        the largest US protestant denomination formed specifically to defend slavery. it’s still the largest today.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Yeah. They literally edited a special bible for evslaved people that removed all talk of liberation and equality before god. American Christianty, Baptists and Evangelicals and other Christian Fascists, was very literally and deliberately created as a tool to enforce white supremacy and keep slaves under control.

  • Futterbinger [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    17 hours ago

    I heard somebody say once that evangelicals don’t believe Christianity is the last best hope for America, they believe America is the last best home for Christianity. I think that put it into perspective for me. That while some American Christians, nominally Catholics, will somewhat acknowledge some other parts of the world as being Christian, or having a population of Christians, Evangelicals do not believe this. For evangelicals The only time Christians exist outside of America is when they’re oppressed minorities in China, or middle eastern Christians being beheaded by isis. Evangelicals have made American civil religion part of Christianity much in the way pagan festivals were co-opted by early Christians to ease conversion.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      A lot of evangelicals will accuse catholics of being non-Christians. It’s rooted in old school anti-Irish, anti-Italian racism. They will weaponize denominations against other minority groups when it suits them, only to turn around and claim those people when (like you said) it’s some other country doing something.

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      The United States is full of bubble world fundies that don’t consider Christians outside of the bubble world to truly exist in a meaningful way.

      They live in a special hell-heaven on Earth that’s straight out of a Soundgarden music video.