There has been an abundance of thinkpieces dedicated to exploring the unholy alliance of tRumpism and evangelical protestentism. Mostly the pundits who write these essays opt for branding evangelicals as cynical hypocrites who have sold the proposition that Cheeto Jesus was sent by their god to champion the return to some imagined earthly paradise which exists only in their fever dreams.
I think there is another interpretation of evangelicals attraction to a twice impeached sexual assaulter and serial adulterer. At least some of the aforementioned community believes an all knowing and loving god bestows both good and bad ''blessings" upon the faithful.
The Divine Mrs M keeps a subscription to a book which features 365 daily devotions. A rotating cast of evangelicals attempt to reconcile earthly tribulations with a divine plan. Today's musing was how despite the manifest horror of the covid pandemic, somehow we must see this as a blessing from god. It is only a short step from that proposition to believing the Creator sent us tRump as a manifestation of his love for us.
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