The following post by Philip Bump was posted on the Washington Post website October 17, 2017:
President Trump listed the values he shares with supporters at the Voters Value Summit on Oct. 13 . “We respect our great American flag,” he said to cheers. (The Washington Post)
From the first moments of his presidency, Donald Trump has delivered victories for the white evangelical voters who helped him win his office. Eighty percent of evangelical voters supported Trump, according to exit polls, a higher percentage than any other recent Republican. In return, he’s given them what many of them have wanted: specific endorsement of priorities such as “religious liberty” policies and opposition to abortion and birth control — and a willingness to engage more broadly for their side in the American culture war.
“Barack Obama used the bully pulpit and the courts to demonize those who held to the very values that made America great,” the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins told Politico’s Tim Alberta. “And Trump is doing the opposite.” Continue reading “The irony of Trump’s embrace of white evangelical voters”