The video is bombastic, even by Mr Trump’s standards. Just consider the title: God Made Trump.

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    10 months ago

    The bar for Democrats to keep states like Iowa blue was so incredibly low, requiring only action.

    What would Democrats have had to do? Is there any chance that any sort of Evangelical appeal from a Democratic candidate wouldn’t be appealing to the rest of the democratic voters?

    • rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      10 months ago

      It goes back, I don’t know, 30 years? With both agricultural US and union areas (sometimes the same places) the Democratic party consistently expected those votes without actually delivering anything. Bill Clinton and the party get blamed for things like NAFTA and jobs moving to other countries, etc. So eventually these folks drift to the Republican party. Many of these people were broadly conservative anyways. Later, the religious aspects and toxicity of what started with Newt manifested to what we see now.

      I don’t know if an evangelical Democrat would fly now. It’s a really bad situation with very entrenched beliefs.