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Related: About this forumTexas Republicans Dig In for Trump, Their God-King (GRAPHIC WARNING)
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's dominionist roots are showing.Jesse Lens
There was a time, way back in 2015 and 2016, that Texas Republicans were part of the last line of defense against the looming specter of President Donald Trump. Former Gov. Rick Perry, Sen. Ted Cruz and a bevy of Lone Star Never Trumpers held the line as best they could, calling Trump a "cancer on conservatism," a "pathological liar" and utterly amoral. Even as late as the 2016 Republican National Convention, it seemed like Texas might end up being home to conservative resistance against Trump.
Over the last three-plus years, that balloon has popped. Disappointing, if not entirely unexpected. What's been less predictable has been Texas Republicans' growing, literally religious fervor for the president. Perry, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress, among many, many others, have gone in on the idea that Trump isn't a gift to those who have longed for a conservative leader willing to exercise hard power, but an agent of God.
In a portion of Fox News interview released Sunday, Perry who once said Trump "offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: a toxic mix of demagoguery, mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued" said the president was handpicked by God.
"I said, 'Mr. President, I know there are people that say you know, you said you were the chosen one.' And I said, 'You were.' I said, 'If you're a believing Christian, you understand God's plan for the people who rule and judge over us on this planet in our government,'" Perry said.
Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/texas-gop-thinks-trump-has-god-on-his-side-11805308
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Texas Republicans Dig In for Trump, Their God-King (GRAPHIC WARNING) (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Nov 2019
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applegrove
(118,622 posts)1. Whoa boy. Leave the rest of the planet out of this. Thank you - Canada
Last edited Tue Nov 26, 2019, 10:43 AM - Edit history (1)
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'If you're a believing Christian, you understand God's plan for the people who rule and judge over us on this planet in our government,'" Perry said.
....SNIP"
Why did Mitch McConnell obstruct Obama from day one? What about Merrick Garland? Surely Scalia dying when he did was not a jest of God?
gab13by13
(21,308 posts)2. Ah yes, the prosperity gospel.