The deep disgust for Hillary Clinton that drives so many evangelicals to support Trump

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Many Americans are surprised by evangelicals’ support for Donald Trump, who has the backing of as many as 71 percent of white evangelical Protestants in his bid for the presidency, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll.

New to the political scene, Trump offers white evangelicals at least the possibility that, if elected, he will stand up for their values. But stronger for many of these voters than their preference for Trump is their deep and abiding dislike for his opponent.

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This has been puzzling to some observers, especially after Trump’s crass comments about women were revealed Friday. Trump is, after all, a thrice-married, casino-building businessman who has been widely criticized for bigoted remarks, name-calling and other behavior deemed un-Christ-like. Clinton, on the other hand, is a churchgoing United Methodist who has long ties to leaders in the evangelical community. She taught Sunday school and, as a senator, attended weekly prayer breakfasts.

But white evangelicals’ anger toward Clinton, while at a fever pitch now, has been building for decades.

She symbolizes much that runs against their beliefs: abortion rights advocacy, feminism and, conversely, a rejection of biblical ideas of femininity and womanhood. Perhaps even more significantly, Hillary Clinton, as an outspoken and activist first lady, is inextricably tied in the minds of conservative Christians to their loss of the culture war battles beginning with Bill Clinton’s first term in 1993.

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When probed in 1992 during her husband’s presidential run about the relationship between her husband’s job as governor of Arkansas and her own career as a lawyer, Clinton gave an answer that for many evangelicals lives in infamy. “I suppose I could have stayed home, baked cookies and had teas,” Clinton fired back to reporters. Many evangelicals, who even now believe that women should be stay-at-home mothers, were aghast.

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[Dawson Leery]

1. "Domain Over Others is the God of the Evangelicals".

[RKP5637]

2. Exactly!!! They are oppressive and controlling!!! And many are damn hateful. n/t

[Dawson Leery]

4. They are pure evil.

[pstokely]

5. If Satan ran as a Repuke, and Jesus ran a a Dem, they'd probably vote for Satan

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if Satan said he said he'd appoint anti-choice judges

[Dawson Leery]

6. Yes they would.

[JCMach1]

3. Call it by its name: MISOGYNY

That's what 90% of the Hillary hate has been about all along.

[Rocknrule]

7. They'd vote for Hannibal Lecter

as long as he opposed abortion, gay marriage, and gun control

[Wounded Bear]

8. Talibangelists...Hillary won't wear their "burkha"....

make no mistake, Christian fundies are jealous of Muslim countries that can suppress women like that. Their Paulist version of Christianity is a figurative burkha that the women in their culture must wear.

This is a big part of it, but the endless attacks from Faux news et al hasn't helped.