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If there is any justice, the 2022 midterms should have exposed the religious right’s moral bankruptcy for all to see. I know what you’re thinking: This isn’t news. After all, the nation’s so-called moral guardians went all-in for Donald Trump, even after it had been amply established that he was unfit for office. All that mattered to them was that Trump gave the nation’s so-called moral guardians what they wanted on social issues. For instance, religious right activist Alice Stewart claimed that the overturning of Roe v. Wade proved backing Trump was worth it even with the evidence piling up that Trump and his inner circle incited the horror of Jan. 6.
The American people saw through the game, though. Trump is the only president to have seen his party lose the House, the Senate, AND the White House during his term. In the last case, it can be argued that the religious right’s attempt to bully the nation, and evangelicals in particular, into bowing and praying to the orange god it helped make backfired. Trump’s support among white evangelicals dipped from 81% in 2016 to 75% in 2020—enough, in my mind, to put Biden outside the danger zone where he could have won the popular vote and still lost the Electoral College.
But it’s clear the religious right didn’t learn its lesson. After all, they tried to foist upon us a candidate who was as (if not more) unfit and unqualified than Trump. Namely, Herschel Walker. By continuing to pass him off as remotely qualified to be the next senator from Georgia even when it was clear that he was plainly and palpably unfit for that august body, the religious right proved beyond all doubt that it has no place in the national conversation.
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