Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.
Well I guess the American tradition of Televangelism set the stage for a grifter, pedo, rapist president.
those faces have seen a LOT of cocaine
I think you mean Jesus Dust. Cocaine is what the sinners abuse.
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There’s a sucker born every minute. We call them Evangelicals.
Born again every minute.
They were obviously fake to me as a child but adults fell for all their BS, and adults still fall for it today from different creepy criminals. Same dualistic, small, tribal minds that choose to stay wrong.
Other people will rightly focus on the evangelical part, but I want to emphasize how important “whiteness” is to the equation. Black Christians don’t do this shit.
The through-line of Trump support is white supremacy. And white evangelical Christianity has a well known problem with white supremacy and white/Christian nationalism.
It’s vexing why Christians would admire Trump in the first place because he’s just about the opposite of everything they claim to value. But if you think of them as white supremacists first, everything makes perfect sense.
100%. It’s unfortunate that more attention isn’t paid to the “Southern Strategy” - started by Nixon but honed and perfected by Reagan. It was basically a massive counter-revolution where whites hated that black Americans were granted civil rights, marginally improved economic standing, and more broadly there’s at least an attempt to put whites and blacks on an equal footing. This sort of white supremacy was sort of laundered through evangelical Christianity but yes, it’s whiteness first. The “Moral Majority” began as movement to fight the government from removing the tax-exempt status for private Christian schools that practiced racial segregation, for example. While white evangelical Christianity does predate the reaction to the Civil Rights movement, I think it’s fair to say that this white supremacy is the foundation for modern white evangelicalism.
The southern strategy was most honed by Bill Clinton. He, (and Hillary) were absolute ninjas with the southern strategy. “Super predator” anyone? Nixon and Reagan told people what they wanted to hear. Clinton’s politics swung a scythe through communities of color and incarcerated people en masse. Just look at the actual numbers. This is not a soapbox, it’s a history lesson. And you know was right there by his side? Blue dog Joe Biden and prosecutor Kamala Harris.
Clinton didn’t have clean hands, but compared to what Nixon and Reagan did, it was small potatoes.
The War on Drugs devastated not only white stoners, but minority communities. So did attacks on social services. Both originated long before Bubba arrived on the scene.
serious, Its time and time again that it needs to be said loud and clear, no one need to hear that both sides BS, Yes we still have many dinosaurs in office that are not perfect and do not have an absolute clean past. But lets not keep throwing the baby out with the bath water like 2024 election, thank the sky daddies and mommies that folks like you didn’t both sides this last election .
I guarantee that if they fucking ban fox news from playing on US military bases then there would be a major shift on veterans.
It’s wild to me that those suckers and losers continue to support Trump.
Guess he just “tells it like it is”
Not all of us do.
These people have a person in a position of trust and authority telling them a few times a week that the Democrats are going to force you to have a trans litter box in your living room. They are completely divorced from reality.
I think the particular characteristic of evangelicals is that being divorced from reality and isolated from dissenting voices is exactly what they aspire to. The more obviously wrong a position is, the more giddily you hold to it. It’s all a test of faith. Reality is the devil’s domain.
The reason white (and Hispanic) evangelicals are so popular with fascists is that they have been identified by analytics as one of the most gullible of populations.
They are completely divorced from reality.
I saw a sticker on an electrical junction box yesterday: “END RACISM AND HATE: stop voting for democrats”. Had to rub my eyes and blink a few times.
The country is still underestimating the damage fundamentalist White Supremacist christian extremism can and will do.
The terrorism will be ongoing for years, even decades.
Everyone seems to be making a conclusion that is not supported by these data. The data show that the people who identify as evangelical in 2026 vote further right than the people who identified as evangelical in 2024.
That does not mean that the cohort of people who identified as evangelical in 2024 had a rightward shift. It’s possible, and maybe even probable, but you can’t say that based on these data.
A conclusion I find more likely is that increasing numbers of people, whether through sincere religious belief or growing disbelief, no longer consider themselves “evangelical”. Those are the types of people who are more likely to be disapproving of trumpism, so essentially it’s just that the people who still consider themselves evangelical who continue to vote his agenda.
Jesus, some demographics are dumb.
I see what you did there…
The white uneducated male still supported the GOP by and large even if they moved towards blue slightly. The only reason why majority of the men voted for the Dems is because of young men and non-white men especially the black men. It’s the young, non-white, women and the educated who saved the day. Also in the senate race in swing states the majority of men still voted for Republicans https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/elections/voter-trends-national.html
Speaking as an old white man: I’m sorry. I don’t like us either.
Of course.
They’re in an apocalyptical death cult.
When threatened, they get more insane.
All the white evangelicals I have known have been the worst people I have ever met. I’ve never met any of their nasty fundamentalist jewish or muslim counterparts in countries they control, but I bet it’s an abrahamic thing.
yhwh just makes everything worse the closer you get to him. The only good followers I’ve ever known ignore like 75% of their religion’s commands.
but I bet it’s an abrahamic thing
I’m no fan of imaginary friends in the sky, but it’s a human thing. Consider the gentle Buddhists in Sri Lanka and in Myanmar, having committed genocides against Tamils and Rohingya Muslims, respectively. And let’s not forget the massacres of Indian Muslims by peaceful, vegetarian Hindu extremists.
And if you think it’s only the religious who do atrocities, consider the Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward.
Power is the problem, exacerbated by the human propensity to believe what they’re told.
I mean, people kill people, that’s true. One can still say nuclear weapons are a huge, unreasonable danger though. Just because people kill people in other ways, and did it before nukes, doesn’t change that truth.
I was wondering who still voted R a few days ago here on Lemmy; I surmised that it was mostly Christian fundies.
Nailed it.
They’re the absolute best at denial and tolerating (celebrating?) dirtbag pederasts.
Do you see that huge drift of independents to left? That’s why you won. We’re the largest voting block of them all (according to Pew and everybody else)
Cults work like that.
If only Evangelicals were really Christians.
They’re no less Christlike than many other Christians throughout history.
The god of the Bible is vengeful and narcissistic. An authoritarian asshole, much like Trump.
I hear there’s a sequel to the Old Testament.
Yeah, that’s the one they apply to themselves, while lashing out at everything around them while screaming from the first one.
In which not one jot or tittle of the [old testament] is invalid before the Earth is destroyed.
In other words, everything horrible in Yahweism 1.0 carries on into 2.0 and 2.5 (though 3.0 disavows 2.0). Or you can ignore the plain language there, but then there’s no reason for anyone to listen to (or not interpret away) any fraction in particular at all if the answer is just “the bits I find convenient are correct”.
Depends on which bit of the New Testament you’re looking at, and particularly, who’s talking. Old JC generally sounded pretty strongly wedded to the Torah (as did his brother James who later ran the Church in Jerusalem), but St Paul wanted to move on from it and open up the religion to gentiles.
The Old Testament that is used today has not yet been decided upon until quite some time after the probable span of time in which Matthew was written, we actually do not know for certain what texts are referred to here.
It is true that the Bible does not have a single message, and contradicts itself often, so Christians necessarily pick and choose, even if they don’t want to admit it.
The Old Testament that is used today has not yet been decided upon until quite some time after the probable span of time in which Matthew was written
The Torah was fully locked in long before that time. The haggling was about the status of some of the other books of the OT (some of which Christians still don’t agree on, either).
That is true, but it is still not known if Jesus was referring to the whole Torah, parts of it, or to some other law we don’t consider. We do not know his stance to other jewish sects at the time, other than his dislike of pharisees. My point is that it’s all just pick and choose, there is no single voice or historic certainty or any of the sort
Maybe those people are simply evil and revel in it as well.
Death cult leaning into the party of death, to nobody’s surprise.
Since they want martyrdom so badly, why don’t we grant it to them?
