The Biggest Lie? The One Religious Conservatives Tell Themselves About Trump
In the absence of reason, God has become the GOP’s most powerful — and most ruthlessly abused — political weapon.
“Pray for brains.” — Dorothy Zbornak, on The Golden Girls
Election Day has come and gone, and the people have spoken. The democracy that a mob of MAGA “patriots” tried to overthrow on January 6, 2021 has done its job. And sadly, religious conservatives have once again shown us who they are at the ballot box. I believe them.
So let’s take a look their new president-elect — the one so-called Christians worship and have pretty much ordained as the second coming since 2015, when he announced his first candidacy. Where do I begin?
Well, let’s begin near the end — on the eve of Election Day, when he called one of his female political opponents a bitch. (He actually mouthed the words, but the crude sentiment was loud and clear.)
He’d already been caught on tape bragging about grabbing women “by the pussy.” He’d already been accused of sexual assault and rape by multiple women and convicted of 34 felonies.
He simulated fellatio with a microphone on one stage and extolled the virtues of a dead golfer’s big dick…