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So I promised we'd start talking books, right?
First up is Rick Wilson's ETTD.
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I was raised evangelical. I left when the GOP and the church got hitched for political power to elect Reagan. Couldn't see how a Christian could pick Reagan over Carter....
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07:57 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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Carter — the epitome of a what a follower of Christ should be like.
Both the Ds and GOP were looking to the future when the US would become a pluralistic society. Ds decided that meant they needed to be a pluralistic party. (Duh.)
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07:58 PM - Feb 02, 2023 (Edited)
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The GOP wanted to keep a white-controlled system in place; they needed the vote count white evangels could offer. They thought they'd set the policy; evangels would vote as they told them to. Evangels had their own agenda — a theocracy really.
It was obvious in 1980 how this was going to turn out./
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08:01 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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I wish more people came to that realization as early as you did.
08:03 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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I was a young reporter, covering the 1980 election—and teaching Sunday School in a Nazarene church.
So I had a ring-side seat, I'm afraid.
Hardest thing I ever did was to walk away from the church. Lost friends.
I watched those friends go through it in 2016. Didn't have much sympathy, I'm afrai
08:09 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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Trump is a direct descendent of Reagan, Bush, and Bush.
And that's my problem with the Never Trumpers. They talk about Trump hijacking the party. And they defend Reagan, et al. No, no. Trump is exactly what the GOP were working toward. They just thought their messiah would be better looking.
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08:02 PM - Feb 02, 2023
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But I fumed about this online one day, and someone said, Wilson apologized in his book for his role in building this. How many times do you expect the man to apologize?
Fair point. So I bought the book. And here we go.

So join in! That's what this kind of social media is good for!
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