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The End of Values Voters

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to Reza Aslan about Christianity and religion as a whole in the age of Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.3

Like the art of the deal, everybody read the deal. Who has read the art of the deal in this room?

0:07.5

Everybody. I always say, I always say a deep, deep second to the Bible, the Bible is the best, the Bible.

0:17.7

Most importantly, I brought my Bible.

0:20.9

The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics.

0:24.0

Why do I have to, you know, we pant, why do I have to ask for forgiveness if you're not making mistakes?

0:29.5

I forgets probably maybe the only way I'm going to get to heaven.

0:34.1

So I better do a good job.

0:43.4

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:46.2

On Trumpcast today, we are clinging to guns and religion.

0:49.9

Okay, just religion.

0:51.7

In part to throw off the assumption that we are coastal elites still crying into our lattes because we lost that election.

0:58.7

See, Tommy Leran, I'm just trying to do your work for you.

1:02.3

Today's topic is indeed religion, Trump's religion, the conundrum of how so many white evangelicals, former espasors of so-called family values.

1:12.6

And I don't mean so-called in a sneering way. I mean, family values was really what they were called.

1:17.7

So former espasors of good, true, normal family values, they voted for Donald Trump.

1:23.8

And he's on the record as a foe of family values, a hater of the weekend disabled, a carouser, a muller of bodies, not his wife's,

1:31.9

a rejector no doubt of those chased Mormon undergarments, Mitt Romney wears, a philanderer, and a draft dodger, and okay, you know this litany.

1:41.6

It's practically a psalm by now.

1:44.0

But the former family values crowd voted for a record of families, huh?

1:48.8

They used to think a single divorce or frisky afternoon on a yacht like that one Gary Hart had disqualified people from the presidency.

1:57.8

But Trump is different.

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