{"id":1412,"date":"2020-09-29T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2020-09-29T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:30:56","slug":"trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trump is a Christian when the cameras are on. But that&#8217;s all his base really needs. The &#8220;R&#8221; beside his name and words that they like about their religion.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote>\n<p>The president\u2019s alliance with religious conservatives has long been premised on the contention that he takes them seriously, while Democrats hold them in disdain. In speeches and interviews, Trump routinely lavishes praise on conservative Christians, casting himself as their champion. \u201cMy administration will never stop fighting for Americans of faith,\u201d he declared at a rally for evangelicals earlier this year. It\u2019s a message his campaign will seek to amplify in the coming weeks as Republicans work to confirm Amy Coney Barrett\u2014a devout, conservative Catholic\u2014to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>But in private, many of Trump\u2019s comments about religion are marked by cynicism and contempt, according to people who have worked for him. Former aides told me they\u2019ve heard Trump ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss various faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride certain rites and doctrines held sacred by many of the Americans who constitute his base.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/09\/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters\/616522\/\">Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump is a Christian when the cameras are on. But that&#8217;s all his base really needs. The &#8220;R&#8221; beside his name and words that they like about their religion. The president\u2019s alliance with religious conservatives has long been premised on the contention that he takes them seriously, while Democrats hold them in disdain. In speeches and interviews, Trump routinely lavishes praise on conservative Christians, casting himself as their champion. \u201cMy administration will never stop fighting for Americans of faith,\u201d he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters-the-atlantic\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-mM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}