“Christians, get out and vote, just this time,” Trump exclaimed to a cheering crowd in West Palm Beach, Fla.
“You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians” he added.
“I love you Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again, we’ll have it fixed so good you’re not going to have to vote,” Trump said.
He says such outlandish shit on the regular now that this isn't getting anywhere near the coverage it should be. Everyone needs to have a mental reset on what's actually normal for a politician to say, and then come back to this speech again.
This is what I find disturbing about America .... it's not so much that insane politicians have been allowed to take positions of high office .... it's that the majority of the American population just accepts it all and does either very little or nothing about it all.
It's one thing to call out a liar or charlatan ... it's quite another to have a large group of people who actively want to listen to the same charlatan for years and years and eventually accept them as reasonable and even honest.
The American political system isn't falling apart .... the entire country is falling apart.
It's quite something to watch, coming from someone that lives in the UK. Sometimes I look at our political system (especially over recent years) and wonder "wtf are we doing?", but then I think about the US and am immediately given a reality check. It makes us look normal.
I saw a documentary a while ago about how Trump is meticulously appealing to the Christian voting base - they view him as a heavenly figure and are actually beginning to class non-Trump voters and the Democrats as 'demons'. He's beyond a politician in their minds, I don't think cult of personality quite cuts it any more, this is something different.
I don't know if it's something in the water over there or what, but they've gotta cut it out now.
We already knew he was planning to remove democracy. I’m hoping that his call to vote will get all the liberal Christians to vote too, specifically to prevent him from eliminating democracy.
There are twice as many Protestants as there are Catholics in America.
And among Protestants, one survey found that "the only major religious groups in which a majority do not support abortion legality in all or most cases are white evangelical Protestants (27%), Latter-day Saints (30%), and Jehovah’s Witnesses (25%)". And those groups are minorities in Protestantism. I'm sure the dataset can tell you how many Christians in general feel about abortion and you can do your own breakdown: https://www.prri.org/research/abortion-views-in-all-50-states-findings-from-prris-2023-american-values-atlas/
Knowing Trump, he probably doesn't mean that he will have eliminated democracy in four years. No, that would be crazy.
He just means that in four years he will permanently solve all the problems in the world that would drive these people to vote. He's saying that he will bring about some sort of utopian golden age, all by himself, and in just one term.