Why has Trump of all people become the right wing messiah? He’s literally a wet fart in human form

62 points

There’s a phrase I once heard to describe Trump, that he’s America’s biggest Small Business Owner, and that sums up why these people fawn over him. Conservatives fundamentally love hierarchy and they want capitalists at the top of that hierarchy, but their vision of the ideal capitalist is not the credentialed CEO reporting to a board representing a collective sea of rich investors, their vision of the capitalist class is a hierarchy of bigger and bigger sea-doo dealership owners.

The branding of Trump gives them that, that he’s the founder-owner-operator making all the big boy decisions on how to run his company, not a pencil-neck brigade of corporate bureaucrats. To them, he is the correction back to the “real” capitalism and capitalist class.

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He embodies the failson mythology that they love via MAGA

He is the avatar of their opposition to the neolib hellscape they mislabel as socialism/communism, etc. If your ideology is based in Calvinism, anti-communism and anti-woke, then he checks off a lot of boxes.

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6 points

That’s a great way of phrasing it.

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no one has ever accused evangelicals of being smart or internally consistent with their beliefs

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51 points

Maybe 15 years ago I knew someone working on their doctoral thesis for theology & they commented to me that American Protestantism was more about white supremacy than Christianity. It’s always stuck with me.

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21 points

I had to learn this on my own while surrounded by it

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11 points

the largest US protestant denomination formed specifically to defend slavery. it’s still the largest today.

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9 points

Yeah. They literally edited a special bible for evslaved people that removed all talk of liberation and equality before god. American Christianty, Baptists and Evangelicals and other Christian Fascists, was very literally and deliberately created as a tool to enforce white supremacy and keep slaves under control.

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5 points

The book Jesus and John Wayne does a good job of explaining this

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44 points
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(not oc)

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He’s literally a wet fart in human form

He is America personified, being a wet fart is just a consequence of this.

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37 points

because he embodies the contradictions within the party

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35 points

Because he gives them permission to be their worst selves- to reveal the parts that “polite society” has demanded they hide.

Nothing a pig loves more than rolling in shit.

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