If Trump can be credited for having accomplished anything positive, it is the fact that he shredded and, indeed, incinerated the idea that Republican christians are …you know… christian.
Being lectured by sychopaths about how Godly there were was extremely tiresome.
Trump killed the ‘values voter’ wing of the GOP. It isn’t coming back in 2024.
On the eve of a Christian cattle call in Iowa, the two 2024 contenders who talk the most about their faith aren’t gaining traction.
Mike Pence has spent nearly a half dozen of his Sundays in recent months speaking at churches around the country and is writing an entire book about his faith. Tim Scott is on a “Faith in America” tour and twice met with pastors in Iowa recently.
Both of them will appear at a Christian cattle call on Saturday in Iowa, an event that Ron DeSantis is skipping altogether and where Donald Trump will only appear by video. None of this seems to be doing them any good so far.
Unlike in Republican presidential primaries past, just two candidates — Pence, the former Catholic turned evangelical, and Scott, who speaks of finding a “God Solution” to the country’s racial divide — stand alone in making explicit appeals to Evangelical voters. Trump and DeSantis, meanwhile, are relying solely on their reputations as brute-force brawlers in the culture wars.