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In their eyes, religious conservatives arent making a cynical bargain by embracing a president with dubious religious bona fides. They finally have the street brawler theyve always wanted.
By TIM ALBERTA October 14, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. Donald Trumps supporters always had diverging interpretations of his campaign mantra, Make America Great Again, yet they all centered on returning the country to a better and more comfortable time.
To economic nationalists, it meant going back to an era of high tariffs and buying American. To defense hawks, it meant returning to a time of unquestioned military supremacy. To immigration hardliners, it meant fewer jobs for foreign-born workersand, for some of those voters, fewer dark faces in the country, period.
But for many evangelicals and conservative Catholics, Make America Great Again meant above all else returning to a time when the culture reflected and revolved around their Judeo-Christian values. When there was prayer in public schools. When marriage was limited to one man and one woman. When abortion was not prevalent and socially acceptable. When the government didnt ask them to violate their consciences. And yes, when people said Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays.
This explains one of the more striking lines in Trumps speech Friday to the Values Voter Summit, which in just 10 years has become one of the premier annual gatherings of social conservatives in Washington. Touting the customs, beliefs and traditions that defined who we are as a nation and as a people, the president recalled the Founders repeated reference to a Creator in the Declaration of Independence. How times have changed, Trump said. But you know what? Now theyre changing back again. Just remember that.
The audience roared with a 20-second standing ovation.
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janterry
(4,429 posts)I plan on saying Happy Holidays exclusively this year. (And maybe next year, as well).
lunasun
(21,646 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)These people were nasty like this way way before trump or Obama
edhopper
(33,587 posts)And not a small one.