Crash Course: Donald Trump and his evangelical followers are back for more: I know how to beat them

As your evangelical insider, here's my wisdom: The threat is real — but here's how to defeat it once and for all [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYEU-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZnVtbDZoYXM0MS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk3eTE4cTYwdHZXA3NwY0IKZHU_wH1kGWFUilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYEU-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMveXIwZGZza3ltcy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk3eTE4cTYwdHYmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZHU_wH1kGWFUilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). Donald Trump and his evangelical followers are back for more: I know how to beat them As I predicted in a [previous article](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYEU-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvZW9lM3k4NzN5dC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk3eTE4cTYwdHYmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZHU_wH1kGWFUilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) for Salon, Donald Trump and his evangelical following are back with a vengeance. Unfortunately, with recent polling showing declining confidence in Joe Biden and surprisingly strong numbers for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Biden's only significant Democratic opponent — the political algorithm points, for the moment, toward a possible Trump victory. For this reason alone, it is clear enough that those Republicans who stand against Trump now, and the evangelical leaders who have been silent about Trump to this point, will ultimately rally to his side. Victory and political power are more important to them than preserving American democracy and following the genuine doctrines of Christianity.  So what can be done? [Read the rest from Nathaniel Manderson.](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYEU-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvMGd0eXRtdWVsbC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk3eTE4cTYwdHYmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZHU_wH1kGWFUilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images) Lauren Boebert says she skipped debt ceiling vote intentionally because she was "ticked off" Failing to cast her vote in the debt ceiling deal that was finalized this week and signed off on by President Biden, Rep. [Lauren Boebert](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYEU-P0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMvYTQ2c2J1ZWh2Yi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk3eTE4cTYwdHYmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZHU_wH1kGWFUilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), R-Colo. posted a video to Twitter on Saturday explaining her absence.  Vocal in her apprehension towards the deal that pushes off the U.S. government's $31.4 trillion debt, calling the bill "a bunch of fake news and fake talking points that will do nothing to reign in out of control federal spending," per [USA Today](~/AASU4wA~/RgRmYEU-P0REaHR0cHM6Ly9saW5rLndoZXJlYnkudXMva2hjcGI3YXduYy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPTk3eTE4cTYwdHZXA3NwY0IKZHU_wH1kGWFUilIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), Boebert now states that she forfeited the opportunity to officially move against it with her vote of opposition for a reason. 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Bill Hader gives "Barry" his made-for-TV movie hero wish Before human beings used cameras to tell their stories, before books and bards and cave paintings, probably, there was the movie of the mind, the never-ending picture starring . . . you. One can be at their lowest and still get top billing; our egos can't help it. The world around us is the picture and we are the auteur, moving through, telling the story of ourselves. 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While he admitted to incredible cruelty, the answer isn't that simple Lincoln biographer Harold Holzer, who won the 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize, wrote to Salon that modern readers should hesitate before judging the Great Emancipator too harshly. While he acknowledged that Lincoln's story "of course sounds grotesque," the man himself was a product of early 19th-century American prairie life. People from that background were raised to have a very callous attitude toward animals, particularly livestock. "Animals might be pets (Lincoln preferred cats to dogs), but more often were either living 'investments' or dangerous prey," Holzer explained. "Farm animals were raised to produce dairy products (milk and eggs) and/or to be slaughtered for food. I don't think Lincoln or his contemporaries attached any romance or sympathy to the beasts they owned or hunted." 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