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What Might Be Even More Important Than “Christianity Today” Calling For Trump’s Removal…
The evangelical Right’s race to blame the “liberal wing of evangelism” should wake Democrats up to something: opportunity.
This is a link to the editorial in the Rev. Billy Graham-founded “Christianity Today”, which upset the President and lit up the imaginations of many a Democrat. What may be an even more significant revelation is the subsequent backlash against the “liberal wing of evangelicalism” as Franklin Graham puts it, while Jerry Falwell, Jr. points out Hillary Clinton got the votes of only around “20% of evangelicals” in 2016. (When we searched his Twitter feed for this piece we also found: 1) He posed for a photo with the President last night at Mar-a-Lago, 2) He boasted that he said the 2020 Presidential Election “will be Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the Dems!”)
Of course, they might simply be setting up straw men (and women) to energize their worshipers and Trump’s base. Just blame everything on the Left and Liberals and Socialists like Trump does.
Still, 20% is not a completely insignificant number.
It’s hard to say how many evangelical Protestants there are in this country, (which is mostly what we’re talking about when we…
