Fascism Comes To America by Nancy OhanianWriting for Politico this week, Gabby Orr reported that only 1 in 4 Americans see Trump as a man of faith. Trump uses religion to manipulate his followers. Most Americans don't fall for it-- but 27% (of registered voters) do.
Republican Party continues to pervert Jesus' message to mankindCrooked carnival tent barker and greed-obsessed power-monger Ralph Reed, who somehow managed to avoid prison for his role in the Abramoff bribery scandal, has a new book coming out before the 2020 election with two working titles, Render to God and Trump and For God and Country: The Christian case for Trump.
There seem to be so many Republican members of Congress announcing that they're not running next year-- and some in districts that Democrats can win. Yesterday Kenny Marchant, a conservative Republican who represents a district north of Dallas, said he's had enough. He's the 4th Republican from Texas to tell the NRCC that he's not running again.
Kara Eastman rallying with Vote Common Good in OmahaSaturday after the vile outbreak of anti-Semitic violence at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh-- 11 dead, many injured-- the Washington Post's Max Boot, wrote that he is "so sad. I am so heartbroken. What is happening to our country? Tolerance for political and religious differences is a non-negotiable part of the social contract in the United States.
This afternoon, our friends at Vote Common Good pulled the big tour bus up to the Miller Park Pavilion in Omaha and did an evangelical "Flip Congress" rally with progressive Democrat Kara Eastman. Tuesday the bus will be at Wichita Farm and Art Market Plaza in Wichita for a rally with another progressive candidate, James Thompson.
The VoteCommonGood bus tour started out on Tuesday night in Bethlehem, PA with a rally for progressive Democrat Sue Wild in a swing district the Democrats are counting on flipping. Not all evangelicals are happy with Trump-- not with his demeanor, not with his policies and not with the way he's been handling his job. Vote Common Good is seeking to introduce evangelical communities across the country to Democratic candidates in the hope of helping to flip the House. Last night they were in Lancaster doing exactly that with Jess King.
Over the weekend the NY Times' in house conservative, Ross Douthat, used his column to opine on Conservatism After Christianity.
My friend Samir Selmanović put most of this together to help Democratic candidates who have sizable evangelic communities in their districts. Neither of us, nor any of our VoteCommonGood colleagues think these communities should just be ceded to Republicans-- especially not when the head Republican is Donald Trump, anathema in too many ways to count to the people who are actual followers of Jesus.
In writing about Trump's meeting with evangelical ministers and assorted religionist hucksters and grifters at the White House Monday evening, they reported that in his public remarks he "spoke in high-minded tones about religious liberty, abortion and youth unemployment.
So it wasn't just Lindsay Graham leading the charge on the right to allow Trump to seamlessly rid himself of Jeff Sessions with no noisy consequences from the base. Jerry Falwell had a son, Jerry, Jr., and some people bill him as "a top conservative religious leader." On Monday, Jr.
