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After Trump, will the religious right movement ever recover?
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/after-trump-will-the-religious-right-movement-ever-recoverI’ve lost count of how many times the religious right movement’s obituary has been written prematurely, but it’s nevertheless reasonable to wonder what will become of the Christian Right after 2016.
Remember, this year was supposed to be different. As regular readers may recall, this was the election cycle in which the religious right intended to play a leading role in choosing the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, and movement leaders had a credible plan to make that happen, eventually settling on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) late last year.
Christian conservatives soon after splintered, leaving the movement with a GOP nominee who is, among other things, a secular, thrice-married adulterer and casino owner who believes II Corinthians is pronounced “Two Corinthians.”
Discarding their professed principles and core beliefs, much of the movement embraced Trump anyway. The New Republic’s Sarah Jones recently made the case that a reckoning is inevitable.
Remember, this year was supposed to be different. As regular readers may recall, this was the election cycle in which the religious right intended to play a leading role in choosing the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, and movement leaders had a credible plan to make that happen, eventually settling on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) late last year.
Christian conservatives soon after splintered, leaving the movement with a GOP nominee who is, among other things, a secular, thrice-married adulterer and casino owner who believes II Corinthians is pronounced “Two Corinthians.”
Discarding their professed principles and core beliefs, much of the movement embraced Trump anyway. The New Republic’s Sarah Jones recently made the case that a reckoning is inevitable.
'Bye Felicia!
