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Originally Posted by zeek
If only the majority of Christian Evangelicals saw Trump as you do.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg1Ty8GvBI4
This video from an interview with NBC makes the position very clear.
1. They did not support Trump when their were a number of Republicans in the field.
2. When they were forced to choose between Trump and Clinton they chose Trump.
3. Trump has followed through with his promises that he made to the Evangelicals.
4. If the allegations of impropriety are proven true that is a problem. However, as long as this negative behavior from the past stays in the past they can forgive it.
I feel that this is a valid position for Christians to take. My reasons for not supporting Trump are based on my background with the LRC and my concern over how bad a bad government can become.
Many believe that what opened the door to Hitler to get power was not support for Hitler but rather a concerted effort to undermine democracy. There is no doubt that this is what we see today in the US, a concerted effort to undermine democracy.
"The Nazis were able to seize power because a shrewd leadership was able to mobilize three essential power resources: the activism and violence of Nazi militants (discussed in the previous chapter), the votes of one-third of the German electorate, and the ambivalence of German elites concerning Weimar democracy." Fascists, by Michael Mann
"Hitler entered German democratic politics with the explicit agenda of destroying democracy." Crapitalism, Michael Faust