Herschel Walker scandal exposes MAGA evangelicals' unholy lust for power

Anthea Butler says it's not surprising that his white evangelical supporters are sticking with him. [View in browser]( [Image]( October 8, 2022 THE LATEST [Alternate text] Herschel Walker scandal exposes MAGA evangelicals' unholy lust for power by Anthea Butler Herschel Walker, the anti-abortion, Republican nominee for Senate in Georgia, has been accused of paying for a woman to have an abortion in 2009. Despite evidence suggesting Walker's actions and words don't match, Anthea Butler says it's not surprising that white evangelical supporters are sticking with him and would stick with him even if he said the allegations are true. "Today's MAGA evangelicals are willing to forgive anything and everything for their candidates — as long as they keep running as hardline MAGA Republicans," Butler writes. She says, for that subset of Christians, "the politics of morality isn't about their candidates' morality. It's about legislating their particular brand of morality for others who are outsiders to the faith." 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