I always go back to Lakoff's strict father model for Republicans. But this is different in that it's the mentally ill and abusive father model. Well, we might think, evangelicals, who are his critical base of support, don't all have sick, abusive fathers in their families and support that.
Why would they support that? Surely, most don't. …
I always go back to Lakoff's strict father model for Republicans. But this is different in that it's the mentally ill and abusive father model. Well, we might think, evangelicals, who are his critical base of support, don't all have sick, abusive fathers in their families and support that.
Why would they support that? Surely, most don't. Have it or support it.
And most don't. But that's not the model with Trump. The model is God. Who is only one step up from white men, but, still a step up. The God of evangelicals is an arbitrary, abusive asshole. But not to be fucked with under any circumstances. Trump is an arbitrary, abusive asshole.
But in no way to be resisted. If you are in an evangelical family with an abusive father you're supposed suck it up and submit and pray. Up to a point. Even evangelicals have limits. Probably not with Trump, though. So, we're there with the abuse but not with the recourse. Don't hold your breath.
Because Trump gets processed differently and as associated with divinity and even, vaguely, with the end times, presumably the prerogative of God but evangelicals just can't help but itch to see Jesus again, to witness the longed-for second coming. 'Don't immanentize the eschaton!'
Anyone remember that one? The source wasn't innocent at all, and evangelicals associate the kind of destruction Trump might bring about (destructive potential noted and agreed upon) as possibly leading to an age of perfection, peace and Jesus and so on. This whole thing is that nuts.
I always go back to Lakoff's strict father model for Republicans. But this is different in that it's the mentally ill and abusive father model. Well, we might think, evangelicals, who are his critical base of support, don't all have sick, abusive fathers in their families and support that.
Why would they support that? Surely, most don't. Have it or support it.
And most don't. But that's not the model with Trump. The model is God. Who is only one step up from white men, but, still a step up. The God of evangelicals is an arbitrary, abusive asshole. But not to be fucked with under any circumstances. Trump is an arbitrary, abusive asshole.
But in no way to be resisted. If you are in an evangelical family with an abusive father you're supposed suck it up and submit and pray. Up to a point. Even evangelicals have limits. Probably not with Trump, though. So, we're there with the abuse but not with the recourse. Don't hold your breath.
Because Trump gets processed differently and as associated with divinity and even, vaguely, with the end times, presumably the prerogative of God but evangelicals just can't help but itch to see Jesus again, to witness the longed-for second coming. 'Don't immanentize the eschaton!'
Anyone remember that one? The source wasn't innocent at all, and evangelicals associate the kind of destruction Trump might bring about (destructive potential noted and agreed upon) as possibly leading to an age of perfection, peace and Jesus and so on. This whole thing is that nuts.