![]() ![]() The more bigoted and offensive he has been, the more he wins. He has repeatedly offended women, Jews, Latinos, Muslims, and African-Americans - sometimes not just offending these groups, but causing downright panic.ĮLECTION 2016: LIVE SUPER TUESDAY VOTING RESULTSĪnd, in doing so, his support swelled in the polls from 15% support, to 20%, to 30%, to 40% and even higher. They attend his rallies with Neo-Nazi T-shirts and assault young black girls without hesitation. White supremacists adore him and say he is helping to fill their dwindling memberships. (Edward Gooch/Getty Images)ĭonald Trump is the most bigoted popular presidential candidate in modern history. In Trump, evangelicals have now completely cast aside the very Christian values that they have placed primary in their politics for decades. Lewis wrote, 'We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement and where everyone has a grievance.' People filled with anger and grievances are easily exploited. A sense of ressentiment, or a 'narrative of injury,' is leading them to look for scapegoats to explain their growing impotence. "Part of the explanation is that many evangelicals feel increasingly powerless, beaten down, aggrieved and under attack. After skewering Trump as pretty much the least ethical, un-Christ-like candidate in modern history, Wehner wrote: In a recent NY Times Op-Ed, Peter Wehner, an evangelical Christian expert in ethics who has worked in the past three Republican administrations, dove into how this very idea is playing itself out with Trump in 2016. PETER KING AMONG REPUBLICANS HORRIFIED BY TRUMP It has existed and been funded, far too often, as a nation-building tool that actually had very little to do with actually living out the creeds and mandates found therein. For centuries, Christianity has been used as a tool of colonialism, oppression, slavery, and capitalism. New York Daily News Fires Shaun King's Editor Amid Plagiarism Scandalīlack Lives Matter's Shaun King Blasts Conservative Media's 'Lies' About His Race “I absolutely did not mean to do that, and fundamentally believe that proper citation is crucial to upholding basic journalistic standards and ensuring transparency about the reporting process with readers,” Sederstrom said. Sederstrom ends the blog with apologies to the Daily Beast and staffers who weren’t properly attributed. “I’ll miss working with Shaun and all of my colleagues at the Daily News, a publication I have been proud to work for and am heartbroken to leave.”Īlso Read: Chris Hayes Says Donald Trump Attacks Only Boosted Megyn Kelly's Career (Video) “Since this editing snafu broke – on social media but also in 35 media outlets, by my last count - I’ve been wracked with guilt,” Sederstrom wrote. He explained that mistakes happen and takes take issue with the paper’s top editor Jim Rich’s assertion that these mistakes were “inexplicable.” There were no intentions of damaging King’s reputation, Sederstrom said. Sederstrom blamed the situation on a copy/paste glitch that removes attribution to quoted text. He called the entire controversy “a f–k up on my part,” and said it stems from “two unintentional, albeit inexcusable, instances of sloppy editing.” ![]()
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