Orange Jesus No More: Right-Wing Evangelicals Now Claiming Donald Trump Used Them, But They Used Him

Mod: Those falsely claiming to speak for God are now moving on to their next political grift.  

Evangelicals Claim Donald Trump Used Them, But They Used Him (PoliticusUSAlink): Right-wing Evangelicals are out in force claiming Donald Trump used them. But they abandoned their own principles to use Trump for all they could get out of him and only now that he can’t deliver for them any more are they seeking to distance themselves from him.

If Trump used them, it was by mutual consent, which is more than many of Trump’s actual victims can say.

It’s been seven years since Right-wing Evangelicals sold their souls to the devil known this time as Donald Trump. Now that he can no longer deliver results for them, they seek redemption for staying silent while he bragged about sexual assault, deliberately separated children from their parents and put young kids in cages, defrauded people so often it’s his brand, and almost two years ago now incited a domestic terrorist attack upon his own country in an attempted self-coup to stay in power and when that didn’t work, he stole top secrets. Donald Trump is a national security threat to this country.

None of that was enough to denounce Trump.

But now that Trump’s become rather unpopular and even lost the promised red tsunami in the midterms for them, now Evangelicals are upset. They say they knew their relationship was “transactional” and Trump did much of what they wanted. But they’re upset that he has turned the “pulpit we preach from” into a political pulpit.

Yet, that’s what it is when people politicize their faith. They did that long before Trump came along. The Washington Post (link) reported:

In an essay sent to The Washington Post earlier this month, Mike Evans, a former member of the evangelical advisory board, said he would not vote for Trump again and recalled how he once left a Trump rally “in tears because I saw Bible believers glorifying Donald Trump like he was an idol.”

“All of us knew that Trump had character flaws, but we considered our relationship with him transactional,” wrote Evans, a Texas author and Christian Zionist who raises money for outreach and support in Israel. 

“We wanted Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe v. Wade. We wanted his support of our biblical values. We all wanted his support for the State of Israel. Donald Trump indeed kept and exceeded his promises to us.” However, Evans said Trump had done damage by turning “the pulpit that we preach from” into a political platform.

Evans says Trump used them and that they “had to close their mouths and eyes” to the things he said that horrified them. Why did they have to do that? How did they make it okay for Trump to mock a disabled person and a Gold Star family while they claimed the clearly false mantle of “pro-life”?

“Donald Trump can’t save America. He can’t even save himself. He used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us,” Evans wrote. “I cannot do that anymore.”

They want him to stop destroying them. In other words, ‘We got ours, now go away.’

Mod: Much more at the link. Pretty remarkable essay.

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