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2016 Postmortem

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts) Wed Dec 21, 2016, 11:37 AM Dec 2016

This isn't the first time white, right-wing evangelical Protestants have chosen power over values. [View all]

One of these men is a white evangelical Protestant from the South and a devout Christian. The other won the votes of white evangelical Protestants despite being a divorced washed-up Hollywood actor who rarely went to church and who preached a secular Gospel of Wealth and Avarice. Guess who belonged to which party.

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This isn't the first time white, right-wing evangelical Protestants have chosen power over values. [View all] YoungDemCA Dec 2016 OP

I'm convinced get the red out Dec 2016 #1

You know what's REALLY funny? DetlefK Dec 2016 #2

I don't laugh about it... Wounded Bear Dec 2016 #4

+1, it should and that should be part of our resistance uponit7771 Dec 2016 #8

There are a number of similarities between this election and 1980 jimlup Dec 2016 #3

I agree. potone Dec 2016 #7

Nor the first time that any human being has done so. n/t Orsino Dec 2016 #5

It's all in how you define "values." Garrett78 Dec 2016 #6

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