President Trump's stunt appears to have gone over well with the religious constituency for whom it was almost certainly designed. ed_kilgore writes
Trump commandeers a church and a Bible. Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP/Shutterstock The president’s strange photo op last night, in which he followed up a truculent law-and-order speech by marching across Lafayette Park to a fire-damaged St. John’s Episcopal Church, only to silently hold up a Bible, did not go over well with the proprietors of St.
But in the religious constituency Donald Trump cares most about, and for whom the stunt was almost certainly designed, the reaction was very different, as McKay Coppins reports: To put it simply, for Trump’s Evangelical base, the Bible isn’t just the vehicle for a gospel of love and redemption, but a source and symbol of authority — a comprehensive blueprint for godly living in a godly country. As Christian-right politician Paul Broun Jr. once vividly put it, the Bible is regarded as a “manufacturer’s handbook,” that shows “how to run our lives individually, how to run our families, how to run our churches … how to run all of public policy and everything in society.
No wonder Trump’s staff is reportedly giddy with self-congratulation over last night’s events, as one dissenter told Axios:
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