. summarized it as: the left tells you you're sinful; Trump tells you you're fine just the way you are. This is a clash of the racism Pharisees vs. forgiveness; Trump is here in gross, every-man glory to forgive you of your sins - and this is why he's so popular.
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This seems highly incompatible with results so far suggesting that Biden is performing better with whites and worse with minorities compared to Clinton.
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I don't think so? "Compared to clinton" doesn't seem like a particularly persuasive point here, tho it might be a mild piece of evidence suggesting otherwise.
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Doesn’t track.
My entire life it has been the right that has been telling us we are sinful. The “party of morals”, the Christian Coalition, moral wedge issues like abortion arms stem cell research.
Each camp has their own brand.
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dude i was raised christian and now am a pro-abortion poly sex worker, but even *still* i have run into less aggression and hatred from the right as i do from the left
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Are you under the impression that he was saying this as a defense of trump?
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found danco's take compelling as well:
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Instead of refreshing the election needle every 20 seconds, I rewrote the Rene Girard essay with tonight in mind so you can read that instead.
alexdanco.com/2020/11/03/ele
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Does this make celebs the new priests? Castigating you for a standard you know they don't live up to.
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Less "forgiveness of sins" and more "these thing aren't sins, what those guys are doing is actually a sin."
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