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.
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an OpEd by Peter Wehner, The Full-Spectrum Corruption of Donald Trump. "There’s never been any confusion about the character defects of Donald Trump," Wehner, a former Reagan and Bush staffer and senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center began.
I don't know a better observer of life in America's evangelical communities than author and filmmaker (and former evangelical) Frank Schaefer. He and I are both working on a project called VoteCommonGood, "an effort to dislodge control of Congress from the Republican Party by inspiring Christians to vote on November 6, 2018 according to what our faith tells us is the Common Good.
As I've mentioned a couple of times, a month or so ago Ted Lieu and I had a meeting with the leaders of VoteCommonGood, an evangelical group eager to help Democrats take back Congress in November. Their goal is to help put a check on Trump who they feel is immensely dangerous.
Yesterday we took a peak at how the GOP is slipping into the status of being a cult rather than a legitimate political party. As I've mentioned before, recently Blue America has partner with an evangelical group, Vote Common Good, a 501 c (4) non-profit organization, which is helping Democratic congressional candidates have a better understanding of evangelical voters.
