3. Trump doesn't have a sophisticated enough organization to have surrogates. You'd think Roger Stone could've helped.
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5. The other thing is Trump is so tone-deaf to evangelical culture that he thinks Carson's stories of youthful violence will hurt him.
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6. Carson's stories of being a violent kid & then turning life around & becoming doctor is redemption narrative. Pure catnip for Christians
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7. If you hang out with evangelical Christians, you hear these redemption stories all the time. The worse you were pre-redemption the better
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8. You don't fact check a redemption narrative, any more than you'd fact check a homily, a hymn or a parable.
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9. If Trump were smart he could've waited for Carson to burn out on his own. But he's muddied his hands now. Evangelicals won't forget this.
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10. Interestingly, Trump has been most sure-footed in destroying his white male rivals (Jeb, Paul, etc). He knows their weaknesses.
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11. Trump knows how to get under the skin of a white guy like Jeb. His instincts desert him against Carson, Fiorina or even Rubio.
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12. Does it matter whether Carson's stories are true? For his core supporters, probably not. They are true-ish. True enough.
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13. A myth is powerful if it contains a seedling of truth. Carson really did grow up in a hellish ghetto & become a brain surgeon.
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14. Let's say I could prove that St. Augustine didn't steal that pear & didn't sleep around that much as a young guy. So what?
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15. The power of a redemption narrative is subjective: I was a sinner -- ME, MYSELF - I did those terrible things and was saved.
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