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The former president is still feeding the Christian right’s persecution complex

In recent campaign stops and on social media, Donald Trump has reprised lies aimed at inciting his Christian-right base against Joe Biden. These tirades, centered on the false charge that the Biden administration is persecuting Christians, aren’t just Trump’s typically dubious claims. Much like Trump’s lies about a stolen election, they are designed to immerse his loyalists in a grievance-laden alternative reality in which Trump alone can rescue them from an evil government threatening their freedom.

In a Dec. 19 speech in Iowa, for example, Trump pledged, “As soon as I get back in the Oval Office, I’ll also immediately end the war on Christians. I don’t know if you feel it. You have a war. There’s a war.” Speaking just after the Colorado Supreme Court disqualified him from appearing on the state’s GOP primary ballot, Trump tied this “war” to his own legal woes. “Under crooked Joe Biden, Christians and Americans of faith are being persecuted and government has been weaponized against religion like never before. And also presidents like never before,” he added. “I always say Al Capone was treated better than I was treated.”

Trump has promoted the theme of Christian persecution in the past, but is elevating it again as these legal issues mount. His clear purpose is to deflect attention from his own criminal liabilities by insinuating that the same Biden administration he falsely claims is unfairly targeting him for prosecution is similarly persecuting religious Americans.

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[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Grifters gonna grift.

[-] sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Danger Will Robinson, Danger!!!

[-] 22decembre@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

No one misses when McCain was saying of Obama "He is a good guy." ? Couldn't it be good today ?

[-] Sprokes@jlai.lu 3 points 10 months ago

I am watching All in the family and Archie Bunker's Place and I am seeing the same stories. They are from the 70s and you see that we got years backward.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Fucking retards at all of his rallies lapping the slop up.

[-] recapitated@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

NGL, there's a sick part of me that wants to know how this future history goes.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

You know already bc there are already a million versions from Hollywood and book publishers before that. Only difference is we don't get to turn this off.

[-] Something_Complex@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Next thing you know they are on the streets saying Sieg Heil and we are going to be chill about it.

Tbh idk even know if it's true but it seems like something that could happen. Now let's just be sure we aren't overreacting to hipped news.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

They were marching with swastikas over the spring

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

No fucking way that’ll happen.

[-] Seleni@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Just like no way he’d get elected to office? Been there, heard that argument.

He will get into office again, by hook or by crook.

These loonies will vote for him in a solid bloc happily, because he’s promising them what they’ve always wanted: a chrisofacist state where only the ‘glorious word of the lord’ is law. At this point, with that offer, they’d vote for the Devil himself.

And the rich arseholes backing Trump will do it because their beliefs hold that the Jews all need to be in Israel and then they can kickstart the apocalypse and all get into heaven, and that will be easier to do if they’re in charge of a mindless, dogma-following religious ‘government’.

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[-] set_secret@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Trump's promises are a masterclass in utter fiction, spewed from a brain no larger than a dehydrated peanut. His words are not policies, but a parade of lies clumsily hacked together to fool the gullible and mock things in his way. It's a strategy as simplistic as it is deceitful, AKA basic as all fuck.

[-] rimu@piefed.social -3 points 10 months ago

I'm not too keen on this headline.

Creating a task force to combat non-existent "anti-christian bias" is not the same thing as imposing christian ideology.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If it acted in good faith yes

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