POLITICS | RELIGION
Faith: The Bane of American Politics
How Donald Trump duped the Christian Right
It’s a stark truth that, in all likelihood, Donald Trump will be the 2024 nominee for the Republican party.
Perhaps one of Donald Trump’s greatest achievements is the way in which he’s relegated so many of the criticisms against him to a place of cliché. There’s nothing new to be said about the man whose time in office, and entire candidacy leading up to it, was colored by an undying flow of scandals and flagrant moral failures.
Back in 2016, I wrote an essay about the political climate leading up to the election. Now an entire seven years later, it’s shocking to see just how applicable so many of these words still feel today.
…most everyone has already heard what there is to say about how awful Trump is. It’s difficult to provide anything new or genuine to conversations about Trump and his trail of what should be campaign-ending lies, scandals, obscenities and worse.
Describing Trump as a sexist, racist, pedophilic, narcissistic, compulsively lying, tax evading, scheming real estate tycoon sounds cliche even as I type it. It shouldn’t feel like hammering in a sorely beaten nail to mention these realities, but Trump’s candidacy parades shamelessly on…
