The Strategy & Policy Forum quit Trump.
The Manufacturing Council quit Trump.
The Arts and Humanities Committee quit Trump.
As all decent Americans flee Trump’s white supremacy, one group of disgusting human beings is sliming its way even closer to Trump and his defense of NeoNazis.
And it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that actually understands what the American Evangelical movement actually is, their history, and where their values lie. Evangelical churches aren’t actually about religion or Faith or spiritual beliefs. Those are just masks for the white supremacy that galvanized the Evangelical community in America to fight public school desegregation and which defines it today. Sure, they hide behind their aw shucks talking points and a few minority faces that are willing to trade their souls for fame, but they have always been and are today primarily a white supremacist movement.
In fact, the Evangelical movement in America is our strongest white supremacist institution.
And they’re increasingly less shy about coming out of the closet.
Trump's evangelical panel remains intact as others disband. Who are his religious cheerleaders?
Donald Trump was forced to disband two business advisory councils and an infrastructure panel after some of America’s most prominent business leaders fledtheir posts, protesting against Trump’s statements appeasing white nationalist marchers at the weekend rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
But the president’s religious evangelical advisory board, a mix of radical born-again preachers, televangelists and conservative political influencers, still stands pristine. Not only have members avoided criticism of the president, while occasionally scolding the violence in general – some have been openly supportive of Trump’s statements assigning blame “on many sides” and slamming those who turned up to oppose the militant neo-Nazis.
Anyone who belongs to anEvangelical church in America is part of a dangerous movement, whether they know it or not. Racist institutions have been fooling the casually racist and racially insensitive religious fanatic into joining dangerous, powerful movements long before the Bible was even written. White people aren’t the only dupes.
It’s time that decent Americans begin to confront our Evangelical problem, because these churches don’t exist in isolation. They’re a network. And the network is diseased. Supporting one slightly less racist church doesn’t mean Evangelicals aren’t still supporting that network, a network clearly dominated and controlled by the worst of the worst. Just look at Trump’s council.
Evangelical churches began their relationship with politics rooted in racism. It’s only gotten worse and they’ve only become more powerful.
The American Evangelical movement in many ways eclipses anything the Nazis were able to accomplish in Germany, particularly when you look at how cleverly they’ve masked their evil behind spirituality and the sustainability and strength of the movement over the decades. They’ve been at it for a long time and there’s no sign that they’re going in any direction other than a more virulent and forceful brand of hate and white supremacy.