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Trump As The Golden Calf: How Many Angry, Old, White And Classless Rubes Are There?

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So as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and radio and TV hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Greta Van Susteren, Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity ask why evangelicals support Trump -- the answer can be found in that poll we did three decades ago. Trump is the "liberator" and "defender" they believe really will "Make America Great Again!"

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Another unreasonable position for Trump supporters comes from the evangelicals: he is not the golden calf, but the Messiah, come to rescue them from the enemies of religious freedom.

That's just what America needs: a crude, egotistical, loud-mouthed Messiah.

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