100 days of Trump: delivering for the extreme religious right

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Craving political power, Religious Right leaders obliged, aligning squarely behind Trump.

FRIDAY, APR 28, 2017 12:59 PM EDT
BRIAN TASHMAN, RIGHT WING WATCH

President Trump’s first 100 days in office, judging by his own campaign promises, have been a disaster, with his administration bogged down by scandals, infighting, and ineptitude.

While Trump has now complained that the 100-day benchmark he set for himself is a “ridiculous standard” and insisted that his well-known policy failures are actually moving forward smoothly, he can take pleasure in knowing that he secured massive giveaways to polluters, came to the aid of Wall Street, and took credit for job-creation announcements that were first unveiled during Barack Obama’s time in office.

The president has also made serious progress in helping one constituency: The Religious Right.

During the campaign, Trump worked hard to ease fears among self-described “pro-family” leaders that despite his own history of bragging about sexually assaulting women; lewdly describing hisdaughters; publicly feuding with ex-wives; running casinos (including one that hosted a strip club), failed businesses and outright scams; elevating racist bigotry and misogyny; and mocking Jesus Christ as an egomaniac, he would do their bidding in return for their support.

Craving political power, Religious Right leaders obliged, aligning squarely behind Trump despite the fact that doing so exposed their “family values” posturing as nothing more than a sham.

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/28/100-days-of-trump-delivering-for-the-extreme-religious-right_partner/

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1. This is why I loathe the "family values" crowd.

The people that crave power like they do, shouldn't have it at all. They don't deserve it. The clergy wants rule by the clergy - where they have all of the power and none of the accountability. They want a world with no oversight committees or "trial lawyers". They want to be judge, jury and executioner. And those are the kind of people who should not have power at all.