chapotraphouse

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.

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

(not oc)

He's literally a wet fart in human form

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

because he embodies the contradictions within the party

I grew up in an evangelical church and this kind of thing is completely normal lol. I remember doing this for some missionaries who came to visit from Africa

Lmao imagine how much trump hates this

I heard somebody say once that evangelicals don't believe Christianity is the last best hope for America, they believe America is the last best home for Christianity. I think that put it into perspective for me. That while some American Christians, nominally Catholics, will somewhat acknowledge some other parts of the world as being Christian, or having a population of Christians, Evangelicals do not believe this. For evangelicals The only time Christians exist outside of America is when they're oppressed minorities in China, or middle eastern Christians being beheaded by isis. Evangelicals have made American civil religion part of Christianity much in the way pagan festivals were co-opted by early Christians to ease conversion.

~~golden~~ orange calf

He's an extremely wealthy white man who tripped ass forward in to wealth and power, he owns the libs, and he openly commits sexual violence and gets away with it. For Christian Fascists that is basically their Messiah. When you combine the prosperity gospel with fox news brain, patriarchy, and white supremacy then Trump starts to look a lot like god.

The secret is that liberals love to talk about him more than anyone else. And the more you tell these kinds of people "not to do something " the more theyll want to do it. So when liberals talk about how "dangerous" or whatever he is, theres about half the country who thinks its cool or edgy and votes for him out of spite.

If supposed Trump haters stopped talking about him for a solid 6 months after 2020, then its likely he wouldnt have made it past the primary.

sometimes things are worth material analysis

sometimes you can just put it down to lead poisoning

Because he was the first in a while to really give red meat to the base. Smarter Republicans view him as a necessary evil in order to rile up support. Then he presided over a relatively okay economy and gave financial support during the pandemic. Most reps view him as a reminder of the pre-pandemic economy who actually tried to appeal to the base. This was done through racism and social issues of course but that's enough.

There's also something to be said about his anti-charisma. It's like the McDonalds dinner for the football guys that twitter liberals went crazy over. Even though it was pretty weird, the average person still likes their McTreats and liberals shitting on it makes them seem out of touch. Donald Trump's weirdness and anti-charisma reflects the average American. Every attack on his weirdness backfires and mainstream liberals are too brain-broken to try to convince people on policy.

He broke their brains in 2016-2020 and now he literally can't do any wrong because people hate to admit they were wrong.

I said something to my mom about how Trump rolled back a lot of fda regulations and that’s part of why we’re having so many issues with food and stuff now. She said “that doesn’t sound like something Trump would do!” And I was like “mom, he’s a wealthy idiot born in a wealthy family he doesn’t give a fuck about working class Americans. All he does is for business people in his class” and her only response was “well I guess you think Kamala does” lmao no?

Every european imported ideology to the usa is basically a heretical ideology but boosted

photo ops aren't real

It's just because he's really racist and they like the racism.

Remember back when these dorks were all loosing their minds about appropriating (incorrectly identified) holy christian imagery during the paris olympics?

yeah...

He pays enough lipservice to evangelicals to garner their support. Its anecdotal but the evangelicals in my family, who aren't even from the US, post clips of him talking about the importance of the Bible and religion in schools, etc.

Why not? I seen way more baseless cults of personality, for example pope John Paul 2 was so bland that even a wet fart would be immense progress, and he still had massive cult.

When you can't poop so your 76 closest buddies come over to help you through it

There's a lot going on in this photo

Complete aside, but I have a hard time taking anyone seriously when that generic corporate carpet is in the photo.

Also, I can't take them seriously for everything else in the photo either.

I feel like it’s become a self-fulfilling prophecy. I never thought Trump was funny or charismatic until people couldn’t stop bleating on about, and now, somehow I see it.